Summoning Stones

Summoning Stones, the title of the exhibition at LIGA, comes from a text written by Josep Quetglas that says, in the words of Salvador Macías Corona and Magui Peredo Arenas, "it is impossible to speak about the meaning of building architecture without acknowledging the collective effort required to bring it to fruition." This position finds expression inside LIGA. The floor of the gallery is made from sandblasted volcanic stone, so the architects wanted to tell a story of the floor's construction by piling leftover pieces of volcanic stone from quarries around Mexico City, creating "an erupting landscape" solidified into stone. The irregular stones were laid dry by the masons per a plan by the architect. The stones fit together in a way that exhibits the labor and care that goes into construction, in turn reflecting what Estudio Macías Peredo's architecture is about.