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Clear the room/there’s a fire a fire a fire: Antonio Vega Macotela’s “Burning Landscape”

28th January 2021UncategorizedAntonio Vega Macotela, clear the room there's a fire a fire a fire, Taipei Biennial 2020Minus Plato

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 […]

I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. It is that vague time between the COVID-19 lock-down and the great reopening. With the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery on my mind, I scribble the following oddly formed questions into my notebook: what position is left for, or forced upon you, […]