Rodrigo Valenzuela
LO QUE PASA EN ESTACIÓN MATERIAL… NO SE QUEDA EN GUADALAJARA
Por tercera ocasión, la feria de arte Estación Material se presentó en la ciudad de Guadalajara, México, al mismo tiempo que transitó un gran número de actividades alternas, llevadas a cabo en galerías, museos…
POOR PEOPLE’S ART: A (SHORT) VISUAL HISTORY OF POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lead “The Poor People’s Campaign”, a multicultural, multi-faith, multi-racial movement aimed at uniting poor people and their allies to demand an end to poverty and inequality. This exhibition represents a visual response to Dr. King’s “last great dream” as well as Reverend Barber’s recent “National Call for Moral Revival.”
RODRIGO VALENZUELA: NEW WORKS FOR A POST-WORKER’S WORLD
In their invocation of histories of labor, and of industries created by humans in order to displace themselves in the service of capital, these photographs intersect with the struggles for unionization, a longtime interest for Valenzuela. They stress the body’s worth—both single and collective—as well as that of rest and pleasure.
RODRIGO VALENZUELA: NEW WORKS FOR A POST-WORKER’S WORLD
En su primera muestra individual en Chile, Rodrigo Valenzuela recurre a la ciencia ficción como último refugio para imaginar contrapropuestas a un sistema económico que solo produce consumidores. La fotografía, un medio siempre vinculado al registro de lo real, esta vez se avoca a la tarea de la creación de mundos, generando un imaginario que explota lo peor del capitalismo para combatirlo con el poder de la imaginación.
RODRIGO VALENZUELA: JOURNEYMAN
Rodrigo Valenzuela (Chile, 1982) utiliza el concreto y los envases de poliestireno como medios indirectos para explorar asuntos como los desperdicios e inversiones en las prácticas capitalistas. La crítica social, la conciencia histórica del arte, la reevaluación de las tradiciones de la fotografía documental y un sentido lúdico son características de su trabajo.
Rodrigo Valenzuela:past | Present
“Past | Present”, Rodrigo Valenzuela’s third solo exhibition at Upfor, is comprised of two parts: in September, a selection of prior work from major series in photography, video and painting; and in October, the debut of a new body of monochromatic photographs. Valenzuela’s works often involve narratives around immigration and the working class. Rooted in contradictory traditions of documentary and fiction, his staged scenes manipulate codes of representation to affect viewers’ perception of logic and reality.