Towards a Lower Sky

2023, dimensions variable, crashed car parts, copper pipes, gas, metal, wood, bronze, concrete, ceramic, weeds, pigeon feathers, robotic lights, jesmonite, screen bracket, lighter, beer cans, digital prints

Towards a lower sky presents a gaze across the urban surface that is caressed by the bottom of our cars. A tubular network with sewer lids wires the gallery floor. The pipelines draw the drainage map of Mexico City, displaying the veins of the urban body. A horizon is formed by scanned images of shoe soles. With the installation, Red Sandoval plays with urban geomorphologies, reflecting on the symbolic and material dynamics between the layers of a metropolitan underworld.

As a starting point, Red Sandoval took the narrow space between the bottom of our cars and the pavement that covers the depths of our sewage systems. In the exhibition, the underside of the cars become the atmosphere or the sky, while below, the gallery floor is wired with a tubular network.

Through the whole network gas is distributed and leads to a set of sewer lids made of different materials, with highly textured and anthropomorphic motifs. The gas itself comes from a pipeline that is directly connected to the gallery´s gas infrastructure, pointing at the mundane, yet hidden processes of extraction, production and distribution of fluids. Towards a lower sky converts the underworld into a fertile ground where things breathe and emerge from.