Fault Line
A line to define a space, a line as measurement, a line as geology, a line as history, a line as representation, a line as architecture, a line as structure, a line as invisibility, a line as visibility, a line as mirror, a line as temporality, a line as fault.
A line was traced with chalk to replicate a "fissure" along the exterior of buildings within the vicinity of the Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco Tlatelolco residential complex in Mexico City, regarded as the most substantial residential complex in Mexico and the second-largest in the Americas. The ephemerality of the chalk and the steady, seamless movement accentuate the work's fleeting nature while also reflecting a kind of silent, on-the-ground ritual to resurrect, from the area's infrastructure, the decisive histories of student protest and structural devastation caused by earthquakes there.
Year: 2012
Medium: Single-channel video, color, sound
Duration: 00:02:24 (30 fps)
Resolution: SD
Dimension: 640 x 480 px (4:3)