Open-ended steel

Title: Open-ended steel

Year: 2011

Measures: 249 x 249 cm

Technique: Panels of steel grating assemblies

From the eighties, East Broadway, the street where he lives and works Benitez, quickly changed population and went from being predominantly Jewish to China (in the region of Fujian). Gentrification surrounding the afiatamiento of ancient communities in buildings and the proliferation of security cameras, among other factors, contributed to that over the years the rooftops become safe. Several neighbors use them in your daily life and in many forms. This work immortalize that moment, taking the truncated pyramid of bars of steel that covered the skylight of the department of the artist, which has become useless and unnecessary. This action consists in crushing and moving the object a three-dimensional closed, leaving it flat and open, as the space which it refers to.