The rise of industrialization and consumption over the course of the twentieth century has given way to mass accumulation and an abundance of rubbish. The rapid pace of modern culture guarantees a speedy transformation from being needed to being thrown away. The readymade was the first push to examine the friction between how handmade and mass-produced objects are valued. This gave way to the Pop Art movement, notable for its critique of global consumerism, positioning the commercial object as a revered and ubiquitous cultural icon. In turn, Vázquez examines the afterlife of commercial elements, taking the now useless or forgotten items and presenting them in a direct and sober way. In her 2016 installation, Instalación de Moldes, Vázquez strung up sewing patterns from an old clothes factory. The ubiquitous bright textiles we find perusing clothes racks are echoed in the sewing patterns, now hanging heavy and still, a lifeless composition governed by stillness and silence. 

A formal language built on repetition and abstract configurations, which successfully decontextualize familiar objects from their origins. The sewing patterns evoke carcasses from meat packing facilities, which alludes to the sinister aspects of fast fashion and rapid consumption. The proposed project is an expanded iteration of Instalación de Moldes, at a much larger scale.