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Andrew Roberts, REANIMATOR: days gone bye (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, COOTIES: the rotten core (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, EXHUMED: miles behind us (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, PET SEMATARY: the hearts desire (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, CARGO: a certain doom (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, BRAINDEAD: what comes after (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, Undead (2020). Performance view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, Undead (2020). Performance view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, Undead (2020). Performance view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, We are sorry to notify you that due to the end of the world your package has been delayed (2020). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, We are sorry to notify you that due to the end of the world your package has been delayed (2020). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, We are sorry to notify you that due to the end of the world your package has been delayed (2020). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, We are sorry to notify you that due to the end of the world your package has been delayed (2020). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, El regreso de los muertos vivientes 3 (The return of the living dead III) (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Andrew Roberts, Anillo rojo de la muerte (Red ring of the dead) (2020). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Pequod Co., Mexico City.
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Flesh, tech & othering in the hyperreal zombie figures of Andrew Roberts

, 1 February 2021
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We are sorry to notify you that due to the end of the world your package has been delayed, a solo exhibition by Andrew Roberts, was on at Mexico City’s Pequod Co., running November 21 to January 16.

With hyperreal silicon cadavers and videos featuring zombie gig economy employees, the show captures contemporary anxieties over futurity and death, technology and apocalypse, as well as alluding to the colonial othering of monster iconography in pop culture. As stated in the exhibition text by Bernardo Núñez Magdaleno: “A tattoo can be a codex to invoke dismembered memories while a computer’s processor is the portal to reanimate voices confined to the liminal factory of the beyond. What contemporary fears and anxieties about the undead do we harbor in our imagination?”**

Andrew Roberts’ We are sorry to notify you that due to the end of the world your package has been delayed, was on at Pequod Co., Mexico City, running November 21, 2020 to January 16, 2021.

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