FÁTIMA RODRIGO
*1987, lives and works in Lima, Peru
Residency period : May to July 2024
Fatima Rodrigo’s practice delves into the definition of modernity as opposed to non-Western practices from the so called “Global South” and different issues around gender identity in Latin America. She’s particularly interested in confronting the unilineal history of modern art. Taking up elements from vernacular celebrations and the show business, such as glitter, sequins or beads, Rodrigo has developed a language that questions the power regimes naturalized by artistic modernity.
Residency Project
Fátima Rodrigo is developing research around the Ethnological and Colonial Exhibitions from the mid-nineteenth century; focusing on the modern propaganda and graphic material which promoted imperial relations. She will seek visual and symbolic parallels with contemporary trends predominating in the fashion and art world, which still reproduce the colonial idea of a “civilized us” dialectically constructed in opposition to the “indigenous others” as objects of study, rather than actors or subjects of rights.
Fátima Rodrigo was recently part of Art Explora and Cite des Arts Residency Program, in Paris, 2021; Gasworks, London, 2018 and Flora, Bogota, 2017.
Her recent solo shows include: Plató América, in collaboration with Jaime Oliver, MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), 2019; Fiesta en America, ICPNA, Lima, 2019; Lo que un dia fue no sera, 80M2 Livia Benavides Gallery , 2018; Mala Mujer, Valenzuela Klenner Gallery, 2018; UNAP, Many Studios, Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow, 2016.
She has taken part in numerous group shows, most notably: Liverpool Biennial 2023; 22 Biennale of Sydney, Nirin, Sydney, 2020; Ars Electronica, Linz, 2020; Weavers of The Coluds, Fashion and Textile Museum,London, 2019; El Desastre es para siempre, Museum of The City of Queretaro, Mexico, 2019, among many others. She will be part of Liverpool Biennial, uMoya, curated by Khanysile Mbongwa, 2023.
Her work has been published in:77 Peruvian Contemporary Artists (2017) and Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction (2022), edited by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
Year : 2024-en