All Originals Will Be Destroyed comes from a series of discussions on systems and economies. Lonesomeness, art and poetry ́s current situation and crises, their apparent distance, and their masked need for each other.

The show brings together twelve artists generally working with the written word as their main trade and their take on different concerns and worries. The work is for sale for whoever wants to pay its price. Any other excuses or explanations for this experiment are unnecessary.

Possible results: “nothing or nearly art.” Each economy’s most orthodox militant’s indignation and shock (poetry is not for sale and it is now)! Apart from the mere exercise the results do not concern us participants (positive bureaucracy: happy –transfers– procedures).

What is the highest materiality a poem can reach and still be a poem? Poetry and currency: Sor Juana on the two-hundred peso bill, Nezahualcóyotl on the 100, Octavio Paz on the 20 peso coin: it’s not a terrible valuation.

It’s true, time is money as with money anyone can buy time. Time to write, time to do whatever no one pays you to do, time to waste time, time to enjoy. Bohemian poverty seems ever more impossible: no more credit at the corner shop. There is no shop next door. There’s an Oxxo. And a gallery: no credit there either and according to the new fiscal reform liable to money laundering.

What I mean to say is, when you, the hypocrite reader, my brother, my fellow man, desire to buy any one of these maybe poems, or works, or pieces, you, an individual or legal entity, have to present a series of requirements to the anti-money laundering portal as you are dealing with a business susceptible to money laundering. Specifically: a corporate charter, proof of address and legal representative’s ID (please refer to Enrique González Martínez for advice on any of these issues at no extra cost).

To sum things up we’re dealing with commerce. Understanding it as the exchange of different capitals: not welfarism not heroism, more of a transaction: “Your tongue’s gold for my tongue’s gold,” as commented Arreola on translation. A market or a place for gathering, the give and take, the bargaining, a dialogue. Because nothing or no one is self-reliant. Poetry and art, art and poetry. Juan Rulfo said, “Either we are saved together or we drown separately.” The enemy lies somewhere else.

Installation
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House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Works

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Ismael Velázquez Juárez
Poetería, 2014
Digital print on paper
40.5 x 28.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Mónica Nepote
Efecto viral sobre la economía del lenguaje, 2014
Video transfer to DVD
03:05 min

En colaboración con Daniel Loustaunau

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Maricela Guerrero
Scripta, 2014
Embroidered blouse
Variable dimensions

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Alejandro Tarrab
Paleografía con fuego, 2014
C-Printmounted on Dibond,
lamps Variable dimensions

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Daniel Saldaña París
No quiero saber nada de mí mismo, 2014
Notebooks, steel table
90 x 70 x 55 cm

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Sergio Loo
Sin título, 2014
Linocut on paper, wooden frame
27 x 37 cm

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Inti García Santamaría
Lábaro/Larva, 2014
Neon, metal base, timer
26 x 87 x 13 cm
32 x 107 x 13 cm

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Luis Felipe Fabre
¡Que dieran los saltimbancos, /a poder, por agarrarme / y llevarme, como Monstruo, /por esos andurriales / de Italia y Francia, que son / amigas de novedades / y que pagaran por ver / la Cabeza del Gigante, /diciendo: Quién ver el Fénix /quisiere, dos cuartos pague…!, 2014
Fiberglass, gum dispenser, plastic balls, printed paper
105 x 48 x 128 cm

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Luigi Amara
Una hoja bien arropada y bajo llave frente a sus gemelas huérfanas, 2014
Wooden box, mirror, paper
13 x 20.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Enríque González Martínez
Cisne de engañoso plumaje, 2014
Wood table, documents, mirrors
84 x 160 x 70.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza
La posibilidad física de la muerte en el cuerpo de alguien vivo (Choche y Damien Hirst, los tiburones bala), 2014
Aquarium, water filter, heater, bullet sharks
26 x 46 x 26 cm

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Jorge Solís Arenazas
La economía de los cuerpos, 2014
Speakers, glass, cloth, book
Dimensiones variables

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Inti García Santamaría
Tierno sauz. Homenaje a Juan José Tablada, 2014
Plotter print, cotton paper, LSD, aluminum frame
70.5 x 50.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Rodrigo Flores Sánchez
La musa mecánica, 2014
Typewriter, paper roll
25 x 33 x 36 cm

House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos
House of Gaga ❧ All Originals Will Be Destroyed / Todos los originales serán destruidos

Sergio Loo
Sin título, 2014
Linocut on paper, wooden frame
27 x 19.5 cm