Assembly - Negative Concord: Caves + Land by Rodrigo Valenzuela

In this series I create geometric gestures in the landscape reminiscent of cave paintings to illustrate the complex relationship between language and abstraction blurring subjective interpretation and communal understanding. Caves and landscapes are uncivilized spaces free from cultural baggage, places that need no language, sites for the viewer to interpret freely, devoid of iconographic logic. The reflective safety tape that creates these shapes references my larger practice dealing with immigrant labor and construction work often performed by Latin American immigrants in the US. In English double negatives cancel one another and produce an affirmative, but in Spanish, they intensify the n...View all