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Rodrigo Red Sandoval likes to expose the bones of reality and rearrange their joints. Living between Amsterdam and Mexico City, he is always looking at the hidden infrastructures that sustain our contemporary realities. He is drawn to infrastructures and their standardized languages that can be found at radically different scales: in a handrail inside a metro station, in networks of gas, water, data and electricity spreading above and below our bodies. In his sculptures and installations he merges these industrial infrastructures with their mirrors inside the human body: an ankle supporting a standing posture, nerves circulating information, a kneecap hinging mechanically.
Treating infrastructure as an organism, he lifts surfaces, makes insertions into imagined anatomies, carves cables, pipes, and screens, implants alien objects, and gives them new joints and mechanical functions – all to draw them out of their supposed neutrality. Unsettling and destandardizing, his work opens the…
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Rodrigo Red Sandoval likes to expose the bones of reality and rearrange their joints. Living between Amsterdam and Mexico City, he is always looking at the hidden infrastructures that sustain our contemporary realities. He is drawn to infrastructures and their standardized languages that can be found at radically different scales: in a handrail inside a metro station, in networks of gas, water, data and electricity spreading above and below our bodies. In his sculptures and installations he merges these industrial infrastructures with their mirrors inside the human body: an ankle supporting a standing posture, nerves circulating information, a kneecap hinging mechanically.
Treating infrastructure as an organism, he lifts surfaces, makes insertions into imagined anatomies, carves cables, pipes, and screens, implants alien objects, and gives them new joints and mechanical functions – all to draw them out of their supposed neutrality. Unsettling and destandardizing, his work opens the…
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