The Unexpected Product of Labor (Two Hammers without a Sickle)
Mauricio Alejo
In collaboration with Leslie Moody Castro and Sean Gaulager

April 19th - May 31st, 2025
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On view Saturdays 12-6pm after April 19th
5419 Glissman Road, Austin, TX 78702
Generously sponsored by LALO Tequila and H-E-B

The Unexpected Product of Labor (Two Hammers without a Sickle) is a metaphorical story about labor as an unstable equation between forces—wind and gravity—that produces movement within their own dialectic process of searching for equilibrium. Through this metaphorical story this piece becomes a line, a drawing, and a sculpture all at once. 

This exhibition is a proposition where existing systems operate both horizontally and interdependently.

Mauricio Alejo (b. 1969, Mexico City) uses primordial physical forces as raw materials to raise questions about our relationship with otherness and “reality” to expose the complex relationship of entities and systems that inform our worldview. 

Alejo’s work is part of several public and private collections such as Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zurich, Switzerland; Colección Fundación Arco, Madrid España; Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC; MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico and LAM Museum, Netherlands. He has exhibited at La Havana Biennial, the Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan de Puerto Rico, the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in SF. California. Alejo earned his Master of Arts from New York University in 2002.