Enrique Ježik

11.06.2011 — 08.01.2012

Obstruct, Destroy, Conceal

During the last two decades, marked by his emigration from Argentina to Mexico in 1990, Enrique Ježik has explored, from within the polymorphic praxis of contemporary sculpture, a series of structures and devices concerning force, surveillance, repression, control and violence.

According to Ježik, sculpture is a way of thinking power and violence as an obstinate action upon the bodies’ matter. His performances, videos and specific interventions, that involve techniques from the use of bullets to Braille alphabet, are witnesses of a historical time where spaces, metaphors, devices and political paths are created by destruction and control technologies.

Obstruct, destroy, conceal reveals for the first time the work and projects of an artist that has been a key player in Mexican contemporary art´s development. Organized in six sections that refer to concepts of violence’s devices, spaces and operations (obstruction, destruction, concealing, the enemy’s body, the theatre of operations and sacrificial constructivism), the exhibition follows through the territory of objects, forces and images that Ježik has developed while reflecting on sculpture’s symbolic and technical relationship with control and power devices.