RODRIGO RED SANDOVAL

Artist’s Statement

As I wander through the constructed labyrinths of the city, I am struck by the profound artificiality that pervades every single aspect of our lives. It is as if we have crafted a thick mirage that crystallizes immeasurable cosmic processes of our material reality, pushed by economic, political and social forces. The work of Rodrigo explores the multifaceted constructed environments that we are entangled with. Through the creation of installations and hybrid sculptures he seeks to open and re-interpret the relations that arise from the artificial worlds we are embedded in. He is drawn to the environments of our everyday contemporary existence as well as the underlooked places like the gritty underbelly of the urban landscape, our streets, the hidden infrastructures that keep our lives running on the surface, and the already distorted natural surroundings. Half inspired by the objective world and half inspired by fictional constructions, Rodrigo’s artwork unfolds materially in the edges of the figurative and the abstract. His work manifests as hybrid assemblages, as if taking snapshots of different dimensions of the world. This fragmentary quality is also reflected in the materials he uses, which come from various processes: industrial materials, discarded materials, raw materials, objects he manufactures, as he tries to touch different areas in which the world comes to being.