Contemporary Art Museum, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

– Tell me, who do you love more, you, enigmatic man? Your father, your mother, your sister or your brother?

– I do not have father, mother, sister or brother.

– Your friends?

– You are using a word for which the meaning is still unknown to me.

– Your country?

– I do not even know in which latitude it is.

– Beauty?

– I would gladly love it, immortal goddess.

– Gold?

– I hate it as much as you hate God.

– Eh! So, what do you love, you, enigmatic man? –I love the clouds… the passing clouds… up there, up there, the wonderful clouds!

 Baudelaire : Petits poèmes en prose, I (1869)

Amanda Bouchenoire invades and fills the black space of the art piece of the month in the Museum of Contemporary Art modifying the air particles by polluting and replacing them with breathable smoke that accompanies a series of images vying to penetrate an object. This is how the installation turns a visit into an interaction, where space is redefined in a single atmosphere of absolute unity. Amanda redirects the senses, especially the sense of smell and sight, moving the materials and objects to a secondary plane, turning the sensorial experience into a catalyst of the work.

Angelica Maldonado, El Sol de San Luis, 27th March 2019.