Mecky Ruess: We met in LA, and started working there for a sculptor
and we did that for quite a while, through several projects, one of the biggest ones
that happened to be in Mérida, Yucatán.
Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo: We moved together to Mérida to finish the project,
and we lived there for a year and a half.
Mecky: At a certain moment, we learned enough, and decided to start our own thing
and move back to Mexico City, and started Pedro & Juana.
Mecky: How do you have a romantic relationship, meanwhile you have professional at the same time,
meanwhile you are together 24/7?
And the answer to that is... we don’t know.
Ana: So Hórama Rama is basically a cyclorama that is 90 feet in diameter and 30 feet high
and it has a jungle inside and in its outside it has kind of an intricate foyer of lumber.
So we really wanted to catapult the audience into a jungle,
and within this environment lie different actors,
so we have a hammock that will be within the structure of the scaffolding,
Oh, and of course we have our waterfall!
Ana: Mecky!
Let’s give them a plan.
Him here, two people, a plan, and they can write it down.
Mecky: Yeah, yeah, that was the next step for today. Ana: Ok.
Ana: Oh, come on, brothers, get on it!
So part of the idea that we started with was to change the horizon of
what you would see when you are entering the PS1.
So we know that many things have been changing around the neighborhood,
so we were in a way trying to create this new environment by blocking the view.
This is extremely impressive, wow!
Ana: Yeah, it’s happening, it’s nice to see it go up and down.
I actually like having the guys on the scaffold!
It’s kind of nice, like, can they just stay?
¿Cuántos módulos son?
¿Ciento cuarenta dos?
Mecky: Ciento veinte seis.
Ana: Ciento veinte seis en total, por eso.
Ana: We were very excited about having these hammocks that are all just,
you know, handwoven from Mérida,
and be able to display it in this ring.
Mecky: And I think it was a gesture about a cultural correspondence between, you know,
a region that is incredibly interwoven and kind of put them in conversation.
Ana: Yeah, it’s all about how these relationships happen, right?
I mean these things are constantly happening in the world, and we are totally interconnected
and we wanted to play with that idea.
And also, that’s why we brought the jungle into Queens.
Mecky: The architecture in itself is not something that is only experienced on one level.
The trick in there is in a way to put something out there that can be read in a multiplicity of ways,
that is not limited to the reading that is imposed on it by somebody that
designs and creates something, but anybody can take something out of it.
Ana: I mean I guess that there is this conceptual part of it that many people might not know about,
but at the end, maybe it is about the experience.
Mecky: Once the courtyard is full of people, your view shifts into
into, you know, it's like, it spatially changes.
Mecky: That is what we are curious about and that’s what we sort of designed for and have no control over
but expect, kind of, these different moments of the change of perspective that happens
at the moment that you’re inside of Hórama Rama.
We’ll see what happens.
Ana: We’re excited to see what happens! Yeah.