Demoralizing reminders is an expression created by the artist to designate great abandoned housing areas as an explicit criticism to the architectural discourse and a denouncement of the fragility of the production system of the capitalist space. It is also the title of this work, which proposes a perusal of the buildings cuts made by the artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) in the period between 1974 and 1978, based on his writings, letters, declarations, artcards, in his interview, in photographs and films developing a trajectory of perusal that maps the constellations of his critical pulsation, whose way of operating is based in a vision of time as cyclical, of separation, preparation, consumption and new sowings. The spectacularization produced by the critics treating his building cuts as products, objects that were finished, albeit ephemeral, while a new language developed by the artist obscured the specificity treated in each of them, the relationships with the documentation, the performance, the context. The thesis Demoralizing reminders aims to analyze them through the discourse of the artist showing that there is a permanent displacement between idea, writing and gesture in a process of continuous unfolding where the action of undoing promoted a permanent need to question the state of things, reminding us of the need to put everything in motion precisely when we feel comfortable.