Pedro y Juana
Channel: Columbia GSAPP
Date: 2019-02-14

https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/1178-pedro-y-juana

A lecture by Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss
Response by Anna Puigjaner
February 11, 2019

Pedro y Juana is a studio from Mexico City founded by Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss that works on a variety of projects across creative professions. They explore the capacity of objects to change their environment through typological transgressions, the indiscriminate use of material, texture, color, placement or form. Their projects assemble new and unexpected relationships with those that encounter them. Some of them are: Sesiones Puerquito or Little Pig (2012-2014), cooking a suckling as a pretext for better conversation. Archivo Pavilion (2012), an intervention in the gardens of Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura DF/Mexico. Hellmut (2013) a Table turn Bench turn Table for Gallery 1 of Museo Jumex DF/Mexico. Casa Reyes (2011- 2012) an annex in an ex-colonial house in Merida/Yucatan. Pavilion of Hotel Palenque is not in Yucatán, a de-differentiated structure at the Hessel Museum of Art, NY (2014). With Love from The Tropics (2016-2017) a jungle for the MCA Chicago.