petites annonces / rencontres / romances

For this exhibition in Mexico City I invited singles to join the opening (via classifieds posted in newspapers and on the web) for them to get a chance to meet a potential soulmate and start a new romance. Many people came the night of the opening, drank profusely and flirted until very late at night. Of the people that came to the opening, it was impossible to distinguish who was a gallery goer or a romance seeker. For the few people aware of the classified, everybody in the crowd was a potential single who came to meet somebody else. I did not present any work in the show (it was a group show, so there were other works on display). The piece are these encounters, whether they occurred or not. This piece is indeterminable, unquantifiable, it is impossible to document or even gauge if it remotely succeeded or failed, this is what makes the piece so specific. Unlike a relational aesthetic piece, there was no remnant left of what happened on display, nor a clear set up, with boundaries of interactions. That night the air was filed with romance.