Gilberto Esparza and Marcela Armas
Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo | Plaza Río de Janeiro
Gilberto Esparza and Marcela Armas are Mexican artists who operate both collaboratively and individually. They use sound as a basis for site-specific projects, urban interventions, videos, and documents. In doing so, they deal directly with technological issues specific to the present, including experimental technologies such as robotics. Their artistic practice considers high- and low-tech materials left over from an ever-expanding capitalist system that depends on the brief use and constant disposal of objects in order to subsist. Cables, radios, engines, lightbulbs, oil, steel, rubber tires,