El Eco is an experimental space designed by Mathias Goeritz in the 1950s and recently restored by Mexico's National University. This rather austere modernist building will house Thomas Glassford's Afterglow, a futuristic pleasure garden of industrial materials intended specifically for this location. The installation consists of a framework of golden aluminm rods, from which transparent liquid-filled tubes cascade, and large tropical leaves emerge. The leaves and tubes glow an unnatural fluorescent green, toxic more than tropical, as if emblematic of some future in which the organic can only be simulated.
Born in Laredo, Texas, Thomas Glassford received his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1990, he moved to Mexico City, where he lives and works today.
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