Through various media such as installations, drawings and textiles Fátima Rodrigo explores the representation of modernism and gender identity in Latin America by analysing different devices such as architecture, modern art and popular culture.
Her work problematizes the power structures that in a post-colonial context continue to organize the world in hierarchical binaries. More recently, she has focused on the unilinear history of modern art. Taking elements from vernacular celebrations and the world of spectacle, such as glitter, sequins and beads, Rodrigo has developed a language that questions the regimes of power naturalized by artistic modernity.
Her latest projects reflect on the exclusion of non-Western artistic manifestations from the global contemporary art scene, as a consequence of the discourse of “official history” that separates “traditional” from “avant-garde” artistic expressions. - © Livia Benavides
Fátima Rodrigo was born in Lima, Peru, in 1987.