Renata Del Riego
Landslide
05-28 FEB, 2023

curated by Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen

Text by Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen

In a series of monotypes that emerge from a speculative research based on the observation of cracks and spaces of rupture, Renata Del Riego searches for ways to interpret rupture from its representation as drawing and trajectory. With the help of atlases, old maps, geographical accounts and photographic documentation, del Riego weaves lines between poetry, image and cartography in which the gravity of latitudes, equatorial lines, borders and tectonic plates in perpetual movement, are imprinted and dissolve with the “passage and weight of time”.

Esta nueva investigación corpo-cartográfica se entremezcla con Sin título (Lethe), 2023, una pieza que se desprende de una instalación en espacio específico en una mina en Rosendale, Nueva York, en la que Del Riego creó una serie de rocas flotantes inspiradas en Lethe, quien en mitología griega que representa al cauce del olvido. En este ejercicio, escultórico/especulativo Del Riego imagina qué pasaría si las rocas no tuvieran memoria y llega a la conclusión de que probablemente flotarían. Instaladas en una base de grano de mármol con agua, el grupo de rocas desafía el lenguaje visual y las reglas de la física para cuestionar la función de la memoria y el peso de esta en un contexto de tiempo profundo.


Renata Del Riego is a visual artist interested in the relationship between matter and text; thread and word; stone and memory. Her work focuses on what falls, hangs, drips and unravels with the passage of time. The weight of time. The passage of weight. Her practice is the result of reflections on language as sculptural material, employing repetitive acts of fragmentation and reconstruction. She was born in Mexico City, grew up in Tijuana and lives in New York.

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