Leer de corrido is about the reading exercises used in the school as read lessons. The piece consists of a series of 16 latex balloons which are embroidered with the words "El cumplimiento del deber proporciona gran satisfacción. El deber esencial de todo buen mexicano es trabajar" ("The fulfillment of duty provides great satisfaction. The essential duty of every good Mexican is work"), from the book Yo puedo hacerlo, published in 1966 by Secretaria de Educación Pública (Secretary of Public Education in Mexico). The balloons will inflate and deflate with a pneumatic mechanism which sometimes show the complete sentence and others, isolated words, provoking other meanings straight related with politics and the Mexican idiosyncrasy.

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