The Autoconstrucción Suites, is a catalogue published for the artist Abraham Cruzvillegas on the occasion of his first major US exhibition at the Walker Art Center. As an artist who utilizes architecture and drawing, video and concrete, music and fruit, Cruzvillegas collects and pieces together various objects and techniques toexpress his own ideas about art making. This mix is a reference to autoconstrucción (which means “self-build,” a piecemeal approach to architecture) and has been the artist’s focus for the last decade. The catalogue, which includes images of works in the show as well as essays by various contributors, also surfaces other forms that influence the artist, such as graphic political posters, books, conceptual art terms, photographs of his hometown in Mexico, and song lyrics. These are presented as “stacks” in the book, transforming individual flat images into dimensional objects interacting with each other to create something completely new, and echoes Cruzvillegas’ own sculptural work. While the exhibition puts all of the finished pieces together in space, the catalogue focuses our attention to the conceptual raw materials he uses, and instead proposes that to understand something you have to deconstruct it. The Autoconstrucción Suites reflects an artistic practice that cobbles together the tangible and intangible in exciting and different ways, demonstrating that sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.