Mexico City, 1998
Renata Del Riego’s practice centers on the relationship between matter and text; crack and word; fracture and language. Her work focuses on what falls, hangs, drips, and comes undone over time: the weight of time, the passage of weight. Through these explorations, she conceives language as a sculptural material, activated through repetitive acts of fragmentation and reconstruction. Interested in the information contained within washed, worn, and broken textures, she approaches surfaces through their fragility in order to trace new cartographies and reveal hidden languages. Del Riego studied Visual Arts and Anthropology at Columbia University in New York. Her work has been exhibited primarily between Mexico City and New York, and she has participated in various production programs and residencies in both cities.
