My conscience is my flag, no walls to my mind, the world has become my house…
Reflecting on the marginalization of homeless people, this project provokes us to view them as "social organic trash".
Ricardo Sanchez Madrid is a Mexican artist. Who directed Filias “Erotic Art Festival” during 2008 with the curator Leticia Martínez de León, this festival promoting art and freedom of expression.
The exhibition “The Victory Over the Dead Room” has three main bases. The first one is the experimental video “A Taste of Hastings”, directed by Madrid in Vancouver, Canada, filmed prior to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
The second element of the sample contains the video aforementioned within the installation with a focus on art povera, which uses recyclable and waste materials, thus creating conceptual reflection about unrestrained consumerism generated by capitalism in our lives, and the phenomena arising as a result of an industrialized fouled society. Finally he arrived in Taipei a week earlier to produce the installation “Cloths Around the World”, which he produced in-situ to the Museum, thus getting into poverty locations of the city, just as he has done in other parts of the world, but now it will be Taiwan; under the eyes of “Madrid” reflecting on death, which is not very far from our reality.
Observing, speaking with the homeless, and exchanging their clothes that he brings from Mexico. With this exchanged elements he will produce a sculpture which be part of his exhibition at MOCA.
Ricardo Sanchez Madrid seeks to look at from another perspective, by working various symbolic elements; “Deconstructing” the way that a “homeless” person seems to the of the society eyes, the subsequent message of Madrid is questioning: How as they are seen through the eyes of the social system, thus viscerally turning them into an object of waste or “social organic trash”.
He compels us to reflect on values that are becoming forgotten with the passage of time. The project encourages a deeper reflection on the question of “homelessness”, while rethinking it in so to achieve a better change in the lives of homeless people, even in our lives and finally their reintegration into society, or the reintegration of the society to the humanist way.