27. Débora Delmar
Property/Propiedad
Material Art Fair VII
Frontón México, Stand C22
Mexico City MX
6 – 9 February
Images / Text
De la República 17
Col. Tabacalera, Cuauhtémoc
CDMX, 06030 México
More info at material-fair.com
Preview at Artsy
Opens Thursday 6 February
VIP preview, 12 to 3 PM
Public opening, 3 to 8 PM
Friday 7 February, 12 to 8 PM
Saturday 8 February, 12 to 8 PM
Sunday 9 February, 12 to 7 PM
For its fourth participation at Material, Syndicate presents Property / Propiedad, a new installation from London-based Mexican artist Débora Delmar.
Conceived especially for the fair, Property / Propiedad incorporates the labor of local rotulistas (traditional sign painters) reproducing mid-20th-century newspaper advertisements for middle-class housing developments in Mexico City. Handmade rótulos from these sign painters were common for decades as street billboards, but are disappearing from the urban landscape as inexpensive digital printing and outdoor screens replace them.
A selection of these enlarged, manually-painted newspaper advertisements will rotate each day of the fair, protected behind a large-scale ornamental barrier – also built by local craftspeople – which references the ubiquitous and arbitrary exclusion present in economics, politics, and of course, contemporary art.
Additionally, Syndicate will stage Onanism, an exhibition of new work by Keren Cytter, for its annual offsite project in Colonia San Rafael nearby the fair. This show will be open exclusively by invitation and appointment 7-9 February.