SANDRA MONTERROSO
Crossed effects
January 17th to March 17th, 2013
CROSSED EFFECTS
Does it all that is solid melts
into the liquid?
"The only certain is uncertainty."
Zigmunt Bauman
With the Crossed Effects exhibit, the career of the Guatemalan Sandra
Monterroso recognizes a point of arrival, but also an interaction of multiple
connotations regarding her concerns and previous searches. If Sandra Monterroso communicative
intentions have been recurring since the beginning of her artistic activity
around the use of media such as performance, video and installation—but also
the interest in drawing or in the broad chart presence—in Crossed Effects nearly
all those languages are present, but in a hybrid way as vindicating her
presence; at the same time, it shows certain dissolution, very committed in
keeping the same directions of the sample.
If the issues
that Sandra Monterroso has addressed have been marked by the re games and
negotiations around the identity and its determinants (from the feminine
universe to the social and intimate side; from the cultural to the political;
from the contemporary to the ancestral; from the memory to the desire), in the
particular conditions of Guatemalan context; in Crossed Effects, without losing
those necessary background conditions of in situ reflection. Her concerns are expanded
into an area where the local interacts with the global; the personal with the social
and the cultural; as well as moving to a more intimate space: to a more
introspective place marked by uncertainties and questions rather than
certainties or accurate answers.
The different
symbolic and formal elements that Sandra Monterroso proposed to work on her exhibit
have took her beyond that "liquid" character proposed by the
philosopher Zigmunt Bauman, to emphasize that elusive, fleeting, ephemeral condition
perceived in current social and human relations. Thus, the interaction of
natural elements such as water and body with respect to other physical
materials—wires, tubes and plastic—either industrial or artisanal, here are
transformed under this "liquid" effect, at the very moment of assembling
the exposure.
In the case of Crossed
Effects, the fading-degradation processes refer to some spoliation, giving
ambiguity in parts in terms of a violent cultural appropriation. In addition,
presence of yellow represents south, while the ellipse expresses indirectly the
geopolitical connotations of the sample.
Ernesto Calvo
Healer
Sandra Monterroso
(Guatemala, 1974). She graduated with a BA
in graphic design at the Rafael Landivar University (2000) and she obtained a
Master degree in design processes in the Popular Autonomous University of
Puebla in Mexico (2007). She has six solo exhibitions of her work and over
thirty group exhibitions. She has received the following distinctions: 3rd.
place in Latin American Art Auction Juannio (2011) and Honorable Mention
(2006); Honorable Mention in the Art Biennial Paiz (2008) and the 1st. Glyph
Gold Award (2006); she also received the 1st. Prize at the Central America Video
Contest "Restless Image" at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design
in Costa Rica (2004) and at the 1st National Exhibition of Prints of Guatemala
(2005).
The program MARTE Contemporaneo is
sponsored by
Mario Cader-Frech and MARTE
Contemporaneo committee
