Starting in 2008, Kolkoz, which has worked as a collective since 1997, inserted the framing process into its body of work made up of video, photography, animation, drawing and sculpture. Making direct references to the gilded frames of the Baroque and Rococo, the tradition of black frames in the Netherlands and Germany, and the emblematic frames designed for works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa or portraits of royalty, works of Romanticism and paintings of historical facts. During their residency, and following their line of artistic production, the French collective decided to get involved with the community of Apaseo el Grande and other regions of the Bajío to make carvings in collaboration with local artisans. In this way, Kolkoz uses artisanal manufacturing as a platform to create objects where different eras and cultures come together, mixing copies of European frames with original frames from Europe and frames designed by artisans with symbols of Mexican history. The name Kolkoz originally referred to a community farm in the former Soviet Union. Now the French collective takes up the Russian word and changes the frequency and intensity of this communist idea about working in collaboration with artisans.

For centuries, frames were designed according to specific fashions and sometimes became more spectacular than the works contained. It was not until Expressionism and the inclusion of photography in the official history of art that artists gradually began to look for less ostentatious and neutral frames, to integrate them more discreetly into their work. In this sense, the idea of ​​the frame as a mass and consumer product has gone through various development and evolution processes.

In a search between the virtual and the real, the illusion, the simulation, the optical game, the metalanguage, the idea of ​​the Russian Matryoshka that contains the container, we find the frame within the frame, within another frame... It is the painting Tetris video game; the labyrinth-frame without entrance or exit for the canvas. Or it is the sleep phase with its greatest frequency and intensity in which we find ourselves in the same situation as Alice in Wonderland opening door after door, the next ones becoming smaller and smaller, until we reach our last option: take the elixir or not; and suddenly waking up from the REM phase (In Spanish REM rapid eye movements). The term explains, according to its scientific definition, the phase during which the greatest intensity of dreams and dream scenes occur.

During this phase the eyes move rapidly and the brain activity resembles the state of being awake, which is why it is also called paradoxical sleep (sommeil or reve paradoxal in French).In this phase of sleep, scientifically (and perhaps in contemplation of Kolkoz's first solo exhibition in Mexico), we experience irregular heart and breathing rates and changes in body temperature.  Physiologically, certain monoamine neurotransmitters (norepinephrine, serotonin and histamine) will be particularly active and released during the duration of the visit.