La Dosis Hace Al Veneno
A polymer 50 Mexican peso note—its denomination coinciding with the median lethal dose (LD50) used in toxicology to measure the amount of a substance required to kill 50% of a test population—is meticulously scraped with a razor blade until all printed elements are removed. The resulting residue, composed of the note’s graphic pigment, is then inhaled through the rolled-up polymer substrate, repurposed as a straw. This gesture mimics the act of drug consumption, collapsing distinctions between symbolic and material economies, legality and criminality, currency and substance.
On April 12, 2010, journalist Jacobo Zabludovsky wrote in El Universal: "Si Dios dispusiera que esta noche se terminara el narcotráfico en México, mañana estaríamos todos muertos de hambre." (If God provided that tonight he would end all drug trafficking in Mexico, tomorrow we would all be starving.)
Year: 2010
Medium: Single-channel video, color, sound
Resolution: Full HD 1920 x 1080px
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Duration: 00:05:32
Frames Per Second: 30
Dimension: Variable
Camera: Ollin Y. Miranda