Vinyl Strips, 2016

Dimensions Variable

Apagón / El Nuevo Grito is a sculptural and installation-based work that uses the language of infrastructural failure to reflect on dependency, control, and collective vulnerability. Installed simultaneously as object and environment, the work stages interruption and absence as physical conditions, drawing attention to how systems meant to sustain daily life can instead expose instability and inequity. The visual logic of blackout functions as both event and symbol, marking moments when power withdraws and underlying structures become visible. Rather than addressing infrastructure as a technical problem, the work treats failure as a historical and cultural condition shaped by long-standing power relations. Darkness, fragmentation, and interruption operate as visual cues for precarity and resistance, allowing the installation to function as a reminder, a rupture, and a call to attention.