Created in celebration of the Kurimanzutto Gallery’s grand opening in the Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City in 2000, Orozco’s Mixote was presented as part of a pop-up satellite exhibition in a local street market in an effort to cultivate wider cultural appeal. Though these guerilla tactics have become commonplace in today’s economy, the initiative was at the time a radical idea that in many ways epitomized the groundbreaking agenda of this generation of Mexican artists. In creating works that could be made by materials purchased in the market itself, the artist reinvigorated these otherwise ordinary items by explicitly presenting them within a socio-political context.