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Andrew Birk, Strip down and breathe (2017). 'Ropeswing' hung on tree at the corner of Avenida San Buenaventura and Viaducto Tlalpan. Courtesy the artist + Ladron, Mexico City.
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Andrew Birk, Strip down and breathe (2017). 'Ropeswing' hung on tree at the corner of Avenida San Buenaventura and Viaducto Tlalpan. Courtesy the artist + Ladron, Mexico City.
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Andrew Birk, Strip down and breathe (2017). 'The house smells like beans'. Courtesy the artist + Ladron, Mexico City.
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Andrew Birk, Strip down and breathe (2017). 'The house smells like beans'. Courtesy the artist + Ladron, Mexico City.
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Andrew Birk, Strip down and breathe (2017). Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Ladron, Mexico City.
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Andrew Birk, Strip down and breathe (2017). Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Ladron, Mexico City.
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Andrew Birk, Strip down and breathe (2017). Detail view. Courtesy the artist + Ladron, Mexico City.
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Andrew Birk, Strip down and breathe (2017). 'Walk' documentation. Courtesy the artist + Ladron, Mexico City.
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Andrew Birk, Strip down and breathe (2017). 'Crater Lake hat'. Courtesy the artist + Ladron, Mexico City.
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Andrew Birk, Strip down and breathe (2017). 'Playing catch'. Courtesy the artist + Ladron, Mexico City.
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The choreography of simply doing things: Andrew Birk’s Strip down and breathe at Mexico City’s LADRÓN

, 6 April 2017
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Andrew Birk presented solo exhibition Strip down and breathe at Mexico City’s LADRÓN galería which opened March 25 and is running to April 8, 2017.
 
The Mexico-City based artist has spent time exploring what he describes as “the pragmatics of art and the choreography of simply doing things” at a project space in the neighbourhood of Colonia Buenos Aires. Being bilingual, his work attempts to unpick the need for linguistic explanation and explores ways of removing language from his practice, with the exception of a poem he wrote to accompany the exhibition:
Andrew Birk, Strip down and breathe (2017). Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Làdron, Mexico City.
 
Strip down and breathe
Everything is life
Playing catch at night under streetlamps
The house smells like chipotles
Shave your head and stick it out the window of a moving taxicab
Some photos on your cellphone- you dont have a plan for them and you dont care
Getting held up at gunpoint
Walking from where I am to where you are to be with you
A rope swing hanging from an old tree
If you have money spend it if you dont dont
Thinking is freedom
Strip down and breathe
 
The exhibition includes a series of ‘moments’ and interventions that see walking as a form of ‘choreography’ and ‘construction as sculpture,’ including filling the space with the smell of beans, hanging a swing on a tree, playing catch in the rain, walking long distances and hanging paintings that he considers as ‘leftovers’.**
 
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