Artist, Gabriel Orozco: The Working Tables are the result of years of accumulating objects in shoeboxes, So, at some point, after many trials and experiments, and trials and experiments, and trials, and experiments and trials I have this collection of objects, and I decided it was nice to see all these together, as an accumulation of explorations that maybe on their own, were not so successful, but they help me to understand other things and to develop ideas and all that. So, when you arrive and you see all this accumulation of objects, I think you can travel through them, and you can see the intentions and the little experiments they were.
I guess I enjoy looking at things like that when I go to a workshop of an artist, or when I go even to a mechanical workshop. When you arrive and you see the tools a little bit, or you see the leftovers of something. So I thought maybe it was nice to see the leftovers of an artist that works with leftovers. So, the leftover of the leftover or something. So they are just evidence of a process and, a lot of my work is that, is the showing the evidence of a process. I hope an artist will come and see that I tried to do something that didn’t work out well, but then maybe that artist has a better idea how to finish that thing, and they can do it.