press release only in german

June 2004

MIGUEL ANGEL RIOS. A MORIR

Rios’ video installation focuses on a popular game in Mexico that involves spinning tops. Through the documentation of this simple scenario, from one to thirty players, aged from 14 to 50, dymnamics of competition, aggression and territorialism are signaled both visually and aurally. A MORIR negotiates both politics and poetics in abstracting narratives about urban sprawl and congestion.

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Rios’ video installation focuses on a popular game in Mexico that involves spinning tops. Through the documentation of this simple scenario, from one to thirty players, aged from 14 to 50, dymnamics of competition, aggression and territorialism are signaled both visually and aurally. A MORIR negotiates both politics and poetics in abstracting narratives about urban sprawl and congestion.