Héctor Zamora is a Mexican artist that works in public spaces both indoors and outdoors. Zamora’s work questions the exhibition space by creating ephemeral site-specific artworks that involve viewer’s participation. In a hidden manner, his artistic practice reveals social, political and historical issues that are anchored to the sites chosen for his artwork. Both performative and plastic, Héctor Zamora’s body of works functions as a dialogue in which Art is an object as well as an event. (Albarran-Bourdais, no date)
Héctor Zamora graduated from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico City in graphic design in 1998. Now lives and works in Lisbon.(Albarran-Bourdais, no date)
While working on creating a tensile space inspired by Frei Otto’s lightweight sructures I found Zamora’s project a=360r/R. The unbelievable interior takes place in a tower and the artist stretches white fabric from the ceiling. The inner space he creates provokes the senses and perception of self-weight and balance. The natural light coming from above creates almost dreamy reality.
The dimensions of the space he made in 2000 are 150m², 8m (base diameter); 2m (top diameter). The technique is lycra membrane and nylon thread and place is Art in situ – La torre de los vientos, Mexico City, Mexico.
Intervention that fully occupies the interior of the tower, transforming this space in an organic environment, the light shed on the plastic membrane that covers this interior provokes a transfiguration that ends up dissolving the surroundings and the limits of this space (Zamora , 2000).
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