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A videotaped journey of a plastic bottle as it is blown by the wind around Mexico City’s main square, the Zócalo.
“As Alÿs’s introductory title explains, the video is a “metaphor of Mexico’s ambiguous affair with modernity, forever arousing, and yet always delaying the moment it will happen”. The artist himself appears in characteristically low-key mode, as the sound man with a boom, drifting in and out of shot.”
Edward Platt