This installation is the third phase of my system: scent enters the system, and Original Distillation appears. The title refers to four days of the week associated with four planets: Monday with the Moon, Thursday with Jupiter, Friday with Venus, Sunday with the Sun. The entire installation is based on repetition.

The perfumes were produced in Florence in 2022 with a perfumer, based on the planetary correspondences described by Agrippa in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Each planet determines a perfume, a colour, a salt animal and a position in the installation. Sweets developed with a flavourist translate each perfume into taste.

The installation consists of black concrete and glass sculptures, built from the proportions of my body and placed in a field of salt and water. Each sculpture corresponds to a planet and to the production date of its perfume. The Atmospheric Mechanism, an Arduino-controlled system of fog, scent and light, reproduces in Mexico City and Monterrey the atmospheric conditions of Florence on those dates. For the first time, scent enters the mechanism and circulates with the fog. When humidified, the concrete releases salt and gradually turns from black to white. The glass records humidity and condensation.

Pastel and graphite drawings on cotton paper, made at the scale of my body through the repetition of the same gesture, trace the positions of the planets on the production dates of the perfumes.

The installation is repeated three times: through the mirrors, which reflect it; across two sites, in Mexico City and Monterrey; and through a screen that, in each location, broadcasts the image of the other installation in real time.

Since Fifth of September (2019), I have worked with materials that transform in contact with water and atmosphere, and since (change of state) (2022), I have displaced the conditions of one place to another. Here it's always… adds glass and connects two complete installations that broadcast each other in real time.

Here it’s always Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, 2024-2025

Installation: Wax, plaster, concrete, black pigment, salt, water, LED, Arduino, water pump, fog machine, smoke machine, mirror, pastel, cotton paper, graphite, perfume.

Contemporary Art Museum MARCO, Pequod Co. Gallery