1968, Mexico City // Sofía Táboas investigates natural and man-made spaces, the way they are constructed and transformed, conceived and perceived. This interest is evident in the materials she uses for her sculptures and installations: live or artificial plants, mosaics and pool equipment, construction materials, plastic, light bulbs, and fire, among others. Her work creates a threshold, a boundary between elements that may be dissimilar or even irreconcilable, serving to reinvent the frontiers between public and private, inside and outside. Táboas skillfully manipulates space to create passable structures and contexts in which materials can be interpreted in new terms. Despite the formal sobriety that characterizes her work, it is capable of creating habitats, such as floating gardens or underwater scenes, exploring new protozoan lives, and proposing exercises in perception and movement. Influenced by the currents of Arte Povera and Neoconcretism, Táboas' practice can be thought of as an archaeology of the future, in which the use of common materials closes the gap that separates us from what is outside, from a distant future, and encloses us in the familiar, in the here and now.