An action consisting of wrapping 550 kg of food—distributed in packages of flour, salt, sugar, rice, pasta, and legumes—with black packing tape. These are placed one by one on each step. The gesture transforms the basic unit of subsistence food into a denied commodity, directly evoking an object associated with illicit trafficking. By installing the packages along the staircase—like the rise and fall of prices—passersby move up and down, stepping on the food.
It is understood that the core of any ideological stance is closely tied to how we conceive the organization and distribution of resources. It is here that concepts such as buying, selling, business, speculation, donation, exchange, or barter are brought into tension. In other words, the fabric of social structure/warfare derives from the way goods are used and distributed. In the work, the arrangement of the packages turns the site into a trench at ground level.
Provisions is conceived as a site-specific piece that engages directly with the architecture of the space and its context, acknowledging that the venue is located next to one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city center, where luxury stores and residences are situated. The installation transforms the site into a corner where the use of essential goods for survival is consciously withheld and misappropriated, exposing capital as the primary mediator in the hierarchical distribution of provisions. At the same time, it confronts the notion of “value” in relation to the art object. The exhibition adopts the language of minimalism as a modular construction, assimilating the food package as a principal and primary block, used in the work as the foundational unit supporting social construction.

Nicolás Cox