Mexico City-based artist Ricardo Rendón regards his site- specific installations as interventions – actions that disrupt our expectations within a given situation. For BMoCA, he created Open Window, a monumental installation that engages the public through an altered architecture, while interacting with the works on view inside the museum by providing a darkened environment. Working with heavy machinery and tools commonly used for construction and manual labor, he punctures drywall panels that have been inserted to cover all windows, creating random allover circular patterns that allow beams of sunlight to seep through and change direction as the day progresses. Rendón leaves the cutout pieces where they fall as a record of the perforating action and signifying the possibility to continue puncturing until the windows are returned to their ordinary function.
To create a darkened environment inside the museum, Mexican artist Ricardo Rendón was invited to complete an intervention covering the museum windows.