HELICOPTERAZO (Helicopter Crash), 2013
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15 x 3 x 4.5 m (49 x 9 x 14 ft)
Wood, reeds, newspaper, paint and fireworks

Ephemeral sculpture built and destroyed in a public square in Queretaro City. The sculpture was an actual scale mockup of a police helicopter that crashed in 2005, killing the chief of the Ministry of Public Security of Mexico under suspicious circumstances. It was fabricated with the help of artisans from Tultepec (Estado de Mexico), pulling from the materials, techniques and allegorical meaning of the Burning of Judas festivity performed in central Mexico during Eastern. This tradition comprises the destruction of figures that embody treason and evil with the use of fireworks. The 2005 accident was restaged in a collective purging event similar to the Burning of Judas. The subsequent installation at the Morín Cultural Center included the remains of the sculpture, a video documentation of its construction and destruction and archival material from the actual accident.

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