"Juarez's Feet" is a work in process which pretends to build someday in India a monument that will work as the extension of the monument dedicated to Benito Juarez in Mexico's capital city.
Mexico and India are antipodal territories in the northern hemisphere of the Earth's surface. La Cabeza de Juárez (Juarez's Head), one of Mexico City's most notorious, (and hideous), monuments was built in the seventies with a nationalistic spirit and combining art with political militancy.
The project pretends to build someday in India a monument which will work as the extension of the monument dedicated to Benito Juarez in Mexico's capital city.
As seen from the mexican point of view, Juarez's Head is the image of a powerful ruler, the representation of an authority. From India, however, a more impersonal statue would be appreciated. It could make the viewer ask themselves: "Whose feet are those?"
The whole planet would become part of an enormous statue.
"Juarez's Feet" is a work in process which pretends to build someday in India a monument that will work as the extension of the monument dedicated to Benito Juarez in Mexico's capital city.
Mexico and India are antipodal territories in the northern hemisphere of the Earth's surface. La Cabeza de Juárez (Juarez's Head), one of Mexico City's most notorious, (and hideous), monuments was built in the seventies with a nationalistic spirit and combining art with political militancy.
The project pretends to build someday in India a monument which will work as the extension of the monument dedicated to Benito Juarez in Mexico's capital city.
As seen from the mexican point of view, Juarez's Head is the image of a powerful ruler, the representation of an authority. From India, however, a more impersonal statue would be appreciated. It could make the viewer ask themselves: "Whose feet are those?"
The whole planet would become part of an enormous statue.