In the lobby of the World Trade Centre four leading Mexican furniture companies have built a brick wall with the face of Donald Trump looking down on vistors – portrayed with orange hair, a clown’s red nose and a cigarette hanging from his mouth. To the left is the terse graffiti “Fuck Trump”.
This is the entranceway to an International furniture Show, in the third week of January. Trump’s inauguration will take place during the event.
“For businesses in Mexico, just ten hours to the frontier, the USA is an easy export market. Perhaps because of that we have tended to neglect other opportunities,” explains Roberto Martinez, the man behind the concept of the wall and its message, “we have to not put all our eggs in one basket.”
