I) DOCUMENTATION CENTER

The documentation center of the MUCA Roma museum was proposed in order to preserve the memory of a fundamental cultural space for a generation of Mexican artists. This piece bears witness to the fate of this venue, which became submerged in the prevailing bureaucracy, symptomatic of cultural policy in our country.

II) UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF SCIENCES AND ART (MUCA)

The University Museum of Sciences and Art is an institution that lacks a collection of artistic or scientific objects to conserve, study, and exhibit as defined by the word "museum." This piece was created in collaboration with José Raúl Pérez, and we aimed to analyze the current situation of the "Museum," which claims to be something it is not. The action culminated in the assignment of an appropriate designation for a venue of these characteristics.

A museum without memory

            “I am a collector of moments”
Opinions of a Clown. Heinrich Böll

“Its absolute singularity […] is something that has as its field being possessed by me; which allows me to recognize myself in it as an absolutely singular being. Majestic tautology, but which constitutes all the density of the relationship with objects, their laughable ease, their illusory yet intense gratification.”

The System of Objects. Jean Baudrillard

We accumulate. We simply keep things without using them again, with the hope of being able one day to reconstruct the route that linked us to them. Postcards from an adolescent trip, love letters, pre-Hispanic figurines, photos or souvenirs, even that napkin where they wrote down a phone number that changed our lives, we treasure these objects believing that each one can hold the reflection of the moment that gave it meaning, delay its oblivion, contain time, or safeguard the secret that gave it origin. We accumulate. When we keep things, we insinuate future or retrospective journeys through substitute realms: butterflies, porcelain frogs, works of art, books, documents. With this, we create mental cartographies that we call collections. 

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