Smokey black walls, old chimneys and machinery surround this exhibition of design collective EWE Studio's works inside a 17th-century mint in Mexico City.
Masa Crítica is the first solo exhibition of Mexico City-based EWE Studio, which was founded by Spanish industrial designer Manuel Bañó Granell, creative director and curator Age Salajõe from Estonia, and Mexican industrial designer Hector Esrawe in 2017.

Featuring the collective's products, material studies and processes to-date, the showcase forms part of the Mexican Open of Design (AMD) ? a four-day festival of exhibitions, installations and other events.
Masa Crítica is set up in the foundry room of the National Numismatic Museum in the city's Cuauhtémoc neighbourhood ? a former coin-making factory built in the middle of the 17th century, which operated up until the early 1990s.
The building has served as a museum for the process since, including remnants that EWE Studio describe as a "breathtaking match" for the presentation of its works.
"Masa Crítica takes place in a large factory room with 19-metre-high ceilings, all painted in black by the smoke released from the ovens, where the industrial process of separating the gold that came mixed with the silver from the mines was carried out and from there on were minted into coins," said the studio in a project description.

EWE marked out its exhibition with a 33-by-four-metre rectangle across the floor. This runs between the space's blacke...