El día cuando el futuro no llegó / The Day When the Future Did Not Come

El día cuando el futuro no llegó is comprised of a symbol of arid rural Mexico—the cactus—cast in crumbling construction materials of concrete and rebar. The sculpture was inspired by the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, born in Guadalajara. Through magical realism, the book describes the failed urban promise of modernity, in which many abandoned the countryside for precarious lives in the city. Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s ghostly sculpture gestures toward the past and future and questions the foundations of both.

Courtesy of CURRO and Alejandro Almanza Pereda.