Monica Rodriguez Limited Edition Print
Limited edition print by Monica Rodriguez from “The Land of Promise” . 11”x14”, image size 8”x10” inkjet print signed and numbered, edition of 10, 2023.
Limited edition print by Monica Rodriguez from “The Land of Promise” . 11”x14”, image size 8”x10” inkjet print signed and numbered, edition of 10, 2023.
Limited edition print by Monica Rodriguez from “The Land of Promise” . 11”x14”, image size 8”x10” inkjet print signed and numbered, edition of 10, 2023.
In The Land of Promise, mixes cartographic land surveys and botanic plant studies, the artist teases out the ruling abstractions at work within the sixteenth and seventeenth century “civilizing” projects to map land, plants and people. In the juxtaposition between the cartographic and the taxonomical, a narrower definition of mapping is destabilized, while the colonial and imperial legacies are made legible in the ongoing language of neutral scientific objectivity. Mapping marks the first step in the command and domination over space. Today the Iberian Empire is gone, Alta California is now Angle California, and yet the disciplines of science are no less formed by the demands of empire and capital. The installation was presented at Winslow Garage in August 2023.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Monica Rodriguez Medina (b.1980, Puerto Rico) is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose research-based practice examines the ways in which narratives about historical events are created, preserved, and disseminated. Rodriguez received a BFA from the Escuela de Arts Plasticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico in 2005 and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA in 2011. In 2012-203 Rodriguez was a fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York. Rodriguez has exhibited her work internationally, group exhibitions include Contemporary Museum of St. Louis, Missouri; Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond, Virginia; TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; 19th Contemporary Art Festival Video Brasil, Sao Paulo; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Tamaulipas, Mexico among others.