In our previous entry Art Collection Covivewe told you about what we want to convey to you with the pieces of art that are in our homes and what they mean to our community, this time we bring you what Carlos Candano(@dosvecesce) tells us about his work CDMX Awake:
The piece that has been made for Casa Newton, is made up of two messages, the first is a recounting of the city in which we suddenly forget that we live, represented by 4 photographs taken from the 44th floor of the iconic Torre Latinoamericana, in the heart of Mexico City, taken with an analogue camera in 2016 and which portray, from each side of the tower-viewpoint, the 4 cardinal points that make up Mexico City and its surroundings; the second message of this piece is represented thanks to a series of concrete exercises/poems, where through the "mechanical" repetition of the name of this city, an important message is discovered thanks to an unintentional but then magnified error: "Take care of Mexico", which at first instance could go unnoticed, but after a more conscious reading, one comes to understand that this poem does not endlessly recite "Mexico City", but rather speaks to us of an invitation to take care of the place where we live.
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The intention of this piece is none other than to make us aware of the need to think of others, to detach ourselves from the idea that the world revolves around "unomism", which is why, thanks to the subtle intervention on the photograph that shows us the eastern side of the city, the place where the sun rises, with the verse that recites: "TODOSOMOS" seeks to awaken our collective consciousness to understand, thanks to a varied reading of the messages that appear in the poem, the importance of living in community, of thinking in community and of being community.
