Published: September 20, 2022; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa
Address: 647 Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY 11217
Phone: +1 718.683.5600
Web: https://www.bricartsmedia.org/Rodrigo Valenzuela works across photography, sculpture, installation, and video to construct scenes that function simultaneously as documents and fiction, and that reflect his ongoing interests in examining industrial and post-industrial concepts of work and the contemporary realities of the laborer. For his photographs, he constructs elaborate tableaux out of urban detritus, much of it found in scrap yards, such as cinder blocks, pipes, wooden palettes, corrugated metal, and two-by-fours. The resulting large-scale black-and-white photographs resemble miniature ruins, images that feel familiar yet distant, and that suggest spaces of abandonment, alienation, and displacement. Simultaneously, these compositions reference certain aspects of Modernism, sometimes recalling American Abstract-Expressionist painting or Latin American Brutalist architecture.
Time: 11 AM-6 PM
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