SITE-SPECIFIC ARTWORKS
The landscape was artificial, and it did something for me that art had never done. At first I didn’t know what it was, but its effect was to free me from many of the opinions I had held about art. It seemed there was a reality there that had not yet found expression in art.
—Robert Smithson
TAE’s site-specific artworks —Agua de Luz, Árbol de Luz and Tecoh— were conceived as cultural instruments that integrate art, nature and awareness. They establish a dialogue with their ecological, cultural and cosmological context; they are spaces where visitors become participants and art acts as a catalyst for perception, memory and dialogue. TAE Arte assumes responsibility for safeguarding and activating these works from an artistic, educational and ecological dimension.
AGUA DE LUZ
I like to use light as a material, but my real medium is perception. I want you to feel yourself perceiving, to see yourself seeing.
—James Turrell
A livable cosmological work in the Maya forest where light and water subtly weave connections among the sky, the underworld and the jungle.
TECOH
When you visit Tecoh, you realize that the decorative dimensions of the work oscillate between being instruments of pleasure and instruments of discourse, and what I’m after is the dynamism this generates.
—Jorge Pardo
This hacienda, reimagined by Jorge Pardo, is a habitable work of art, a laboratory of ideas and a space for sensitive experimentation.
