What is more important for you, the process of work and its documentation or the result?

Process overall. I have never initiated a project thinking of the final result. I actually find it hard to believe anybody now thinks of the final product. I think conceptual ideas are so integral to art thinking these days that they have influenced even the most formal process of art. Falling Together in Time, is a video essay I made last year that really encapsulates all three questions, above; inspiration, music and a certain logic of creation. The piece explores the themes of coincidence and happenstance, weaving together both sparks of inspiration but also liminal moments, like an incident in 1981 in which Mohammad Ali talked a suicidal jumper off the ledge of a building on Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile, with the development of Van Halen’s 1983 hit Jump – a song whose synth-heavy style led to the band’s breakup over artistic differences. It’s a work where creation happens when coincidences appear and is mainly based on music.

What are you working on these days?

Right now, I am writing to you from inside Museo Jumex. Although the museum is closed because of the pandemic, I was invited to work on an exhibition that no one but one person will see in the flesh, but it’s broadcasted during the time the institution should have been open. The idea is to make transparent the processes that happen in a museum, behind curtain, and also to make an exhibition specific for this time when the museum is not accessible; to not let the museum sit there by itself I have been reading, and talking and getting bored, but I am also working on some bi-dimensional series I produced by pouring toner dust onto canvas here. The canvases are some sort of excuse to explore ideas related to uncertainty, repetition, solitude, etc… The piece is live, right now, on the Museo Jumex website, and is open from Tuesday to Monday from 10am to 7pm (Mexico time!).