Antonio Vega Macotela (b. 1980, Mexico City, Mexico) makes sculptures and installations in collaboration with others where relationships and labor become the artwork. For One Second, Vega Macoteela worked with hackers to embed the data from an mp3 file of one second of recorded silence into a large acrylic lens, thus distorting the image seen through it. The silence is taken from a video recorded on top of "La Bestia" (The Beast), one of the freight trains that many migrants from Central America use to traverse Mexico on their journey north.

One Second, 2021
Resin, steel; 77 x 52 x 115
Part of the Musical Brain, a group exhibition that reflects on the power music has to bring people together.
April 2021 - March 2022
New York, NY

02.04.22