July 25, 2008
CITY OF MEXICO: Reflections
From Sarah Dougherty [Spacial Reconstruction: City of Mexico creator]:
The City of Mexico at Found Gallery was an experiment. The installation’s premise was to build a home reflecting the one filled with art and friendships and love I built in Mexico. As I and my brother, then best friend, and finally my boyfriend inhabited the space with me as we worked in it, the place became meaningful and became a home. When I went to Mexico I similarly created a home out of a few necessary suitcase items, local tiny flora, cheap imported plastic items, gifts, etc. To create the physical space we painted the backgrounds with meaningful colors- the deepest yellow and blue came together at the back wall in a polluted looking off-white, imperfect and rich, which became the “gallery” wall, a portion of the room that featured prints from the year in mexico. I tried to let the gallery and location also limit and therefore be creative shaping forces behind the exhibit, since it was about bricolage- making do with what’s around.
