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Momento 2 [Moment 2]

Primary (Mexican)
Primary (Mazatlán, Mexico, 1969–)
NationalityMexican, North America
Date2006
MediumAluminum, colored acrylic sheets, shaped pvc, electric light, and electric wiring
DimensionsOverall: 48 × 48 × 4 in. (121.9 × 121.9 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Michael Krichman and Carmen Cuenca, 2016.263
Rights Statement
Collection AreaLatin American Art
Object number2016.263
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Torolab is a collective workshop based in Tijuana, Mexico. Its founder, Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, collaborates with researchers, architects, and designers to propose solutions to problems related to security, precarity, malnutrition, mobility, and public space. This series of lightboxes documents an urban ethnography project for which Torolab designed GPS-embedded clothing for five collaborators, tracking their location, velocity, and fuel consumption for five days as they moved through the Tijuana-San Diego region. Each lightbox is a “still” from a map of the collected data, illustrating participants’ movements over a 24-hour period. Torolab proposes an alternative cartography of the daily migrations, transactions, and detours across urban and natural topographies that are indifferent to political boundaries.