Though indebted to conventional artistic methodologies, the vibrant, playful works of Jorge Pardo lack traditional notions of artistic autonomy, with multiple uses straddling sculpture, furniture and architecture. Over espresso and a cigarette in the kitchen of his Los Angeles home, Pardo shares with Oscar Tuazon his processes of transforming built environments into functionally fluid sites designed to facilitate a diversity of experience. For his reimagining of the sprawling Tecoh hacienda in the Yucatán Peninsula, Pardo repeated and reiterated the property's coffered concrete triangles, floating pools of water and starfish floor tiles, creating a circular visual environment in aesthetic concert with its own past.
Filmed by Tom Salvaggio and Stephen Pagano. Edited by Tom Salvaggio.
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