Frieze London 2017

The Good will moon rock project is an ongoing research from the Colombian artist Santiago Reyes Villaveces. The artist traces the Goodwill moon rocks of the country where the project is presented to produces a drawing of each of the country’s Good will moon rocks. For the Frieze show, Reyes Villaveces has produced one drawing for each of the Good Will moon rocks given to the United Kingdom. The series is composed by one drawing of the Apollo XVII rock and four or the Apollo XXI mission.

For his solo show at Frieze Focus Reyes also presents a ‘family’ of push cars made out of urban detritus and recycled ball bearings. ‘Brujitas’(witches) is the popular name given to this type of cars in Colombia–. The Brujitas are working tools in informal economies systems use to generate value in the mobility and transport of goods. These structures embody a form in which a sophisticated ‘simple’ structure articulates a way of assimilating and resisting the informal economies that arise in the voids of the ‘official’ economic system. The artist activates these vehicles in the urban context of London (UK), Dubai (UEA) and Ambalema (Colombia) and their documentations and deployments are presented in the project ‘Brujitas’.