Burning Landscape II, 2019
Burning Landscape III, 2019
Burning Landscape VI, 2019
Drawing inspiration from the poem “Incendio” by Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the massive tapestries depict burning landscapes releasing heavy smoke. But what is the smoke signal about? Using a technique called “steganography” commonly employed by hackers and activists to hide secret information, the artist wove the codes of a leaked confidential list denouncing tax evaders into the meshes of the work.
The tapestries then gain a double status. On the one hand, they are a meticulously woven image depicting a landscape. On the other hand, they are an archive, listing the citizens whose capital flows through borders and escapes the tax system put in place in the boundaries of their nation states.
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