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Fátima Rodrigo at Liverpool Biennial
10.06.2023 - 17.09.2023
We are pleased to announce Fátima Rodrigo’s participation in the 2023 edition of Liverpool Biennial. The artist presents several works from her ‘Holograms’ series, alongside a newly commissioned textile work, ‘Contradanza’.
Taking up elements from vernacular celebrations and showbusiness, she has developed a particular language that questions the power regimes naturalised by artistic modernity. She was recently part of the Art Explora and Cite des Arts Residency Program, in Paris the Bienal Saco and Atelier Mondial Residency Program in Basel, 2022.
Her recent solo shows include: Plató América, in collaboration with Jaime Oliver, MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI); Fiesta en America, ICPNA, Lima; UNAP, Many Studios, Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow, 2016. She has taken part in numerous group shows, most notably: 22 Biennale of Sydney, Nirin, 2020; Ars Electronica 2020; Weavers of The Coluds, Fashion and Textile Museum, London; El Desastre es para siempre, Museum of The City of Queretaro, Mexico. Her work has been published in:77 Peruvian Contemporary Artists (2017) and Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction (upcoming).
Fátima Rodrigo Gonzales presents several works from her ‘Holograms’ series (2020-2022), alongside a newly commissioned textile work, ‘Contradanza’ (2023). Both explore how fashion photography often copies and extracts from aesthetics and traditional dress of indigenous people and cultures for commercial purposes. In these types of photographs, people are portrayed as subjects with no identity, reduced to their costumes that become detached from their original purpose or meaning through repetitive postures and gestures. Through the photographer’s lens, Andean and other indigenous bodies become exotic commodities for an international market, enabling hierarchies that reproduce the colonial idea of a “civilised us” constructed in opposition to the “indigenous others”. Using the same patterns and symbols, often lost in the background of these staged photographs, she creates new abstract compositions which reclaim the existence, meaning and essence of traditional Andean celebrations. In this way, Rodrigo Gonzales’ work makes sacred what has been commodified.
Source: https://www.biennial.com/artists/fatima-rodrigo-gonzales/
Taking up elements from vernacular celebrations and showbusiness, she has developed a particular language that questions the power regimes naturalised by artistic modernity. She was recently part of the Art Explora and Cite des Arts Residency Program, in Paris the Bienal Saco and Atelier Mondial Residency Program in Basel, 2022.
Her recent solo shows include: Plató América, in collaboration with Jaime Oliver, MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI); Fiesta en America, ICPNA, Lima; UNAP, Many Studios, Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow, 2016. She has taken part in numerous group shows, most notably: 22 Biennale of Sydney, Nirin, 2020; Ars Electronica 2020; Weavers of The Coluds, Fashion and Textile Museum, London; El Desastre es para siempre, Museum of The City of Queretaro, Mexico. Her work has been published in:77 Peruvian Contemporary Artists (2017) and Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction (upcoming).
Fátima Rodrigo Gonzales presents several works from her ‘Holograms’ series (2020-2022), alongside a newly commissioned textile work, ‘Contradanza’ (2023). Both explore how fashion photography often copies and extracts from aesthetics and traditional dress of indigenous people and cultures for commercial purposes. In these types of photographs, people are portrayed as subjects with no identity, reduced to their costumes that become detached from their original purpose or meaning through repetitive postures and gestures. Through the photographer’s lens, Andean and other indigenous bodies become exotic commodities for an international market, enabling hierarchies that reproduce the colonial idea of a “civilised us” constructed in opposition to the “indigenous others”. Using the same patterns and symbols, often lost in the background of these staged photographs, she creates new abstract compositions which reclaim the existence, meaning and essence of traditional Andean celebrations. In this way, Rodrigo Gonzales’ work makes sacred what has been commodified.
Source: https://www.biennial.com/artists/fatima-rodrigo-gonzales/