Our latest blog post on Pia Camil's current show at the New Museum! "Camil often saw modular grid wall panels used to display goods in stores in downtown Mexico City, where she was born and continues to live and work. For this installation, Camil designed her own grid walls specifically for the Lobby Gallery. Painted bright red, the grids form dizzying, shifting patterns of lines and geometric shapes. In a series of six public events, visitors are invited to exchange their own objects with those already installed on the grid, and are given a limited edition sweatshirt designed by Camil (created with a collaborator) as a token of thanks. In her invitation, Camil specifies that visitors should bring objects that are totemic, imbued with both a personal value and a history. She suggests that the monetary value of these objects is insignificant, and that they will be given new life and symbolic richness on the grid. Displayed on the grid walls, these personal objects create a diagram of in...