Rirkrit Tiravanija frames this piece as a reactivation of a 1970 project by Slovakian artist Július Koller (1939- 2007) entitled Ping-Pong Society. This piece consisted of a month-long free and public ping-pong club installed in an art gallery in Bratislava. Tiravanija’s reinterpretation consists of seven ping-pong tables bearing the phrase TOMORROW IS THE QUESTION (along with their corresponding paddles showing a question mark), which are installed within a tennis court layout. The intention of the artist is to create an accessible piece that provokes moments of interaction among its users.

With this in mind, Museo Jumex attempts to become a dynamic meeting point. Although located in Plaza Carso—one of the most ambicious urban developments in Latin America—and forming part of a new cultural circuit, it is important to recognize that the site was originally an industrial park for automotive plants such as General Tire (1934), General Motors (1937), and Chrysler (1939). After operating for forty years, General Tire closed its doors—not without leaving a trace of modernity and industrial development in the area.

Construction for Plaza Carso began in 2008 on the plot previously occupied by the tire plant. One of the main ambitions of this corporate complex was to generate a “new city center” that would replace the industrial site to instead offer community spaces. In this new neighborhood, the main activities are businesses and art, both as incentives that continuously create human relations. However, as it often happens in many contemporary urban complexes, such relations can become stagnant.

With these seven intervened ping-pong tables, the Jumex Museum proposes a different experience of its building’s use in Plaza Carso. It aims to also present the contemporary museum as a space of recreation, and not only of contemplation. To the extent where we allow for relationships and dialogues to flow continuously through play, it may be possible, that, new experiences will emerge.