Four Dimensions of a Monolith
Four Dimensions of a Monolith (2019) exposes the failure of Ecuadorean History to account for femenine rape during the Spanish Conquest.
This failure becomes apparent in a passage from my History textbook, which justifies [sexual] violence as an “attractive” transaction for indigenous women to socially advance. This monolithic narrative omits the complex and often brutal experience of colonization for indigenous women. To make this historic void apparent, the installation offers multiple dimensions of the passage. Sculptural and photographic strategies expand and invert, highlight and redact the text. Every iteration destabilizes the veracity of this narrative.
The installation consists of four components:
- Apparatus & Shadowbooks (two opposing tripods highlighting the passage)
- Corrective Lens of Page 99 (text-based installation that either redacts or reveals the passage, depending on the angle seen)
- Two Sentences, Bent (urethane cast of the passage expanded in space)
![Apparatus & Three Shadowbooks, 2019Photographic sculpture activated by light](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c433d8c3a28f84a16dbe03c6030636198355e9e7d6ba4ff30e0d52cb5de503a6/04_4DM_1_Astro.jpg)
![Apparatus & Three Shadowbooks, 2019 Metallic projector with a missing leg Three resin casts of the artist’s Latin American History textbook containing hair, with a passage as a void](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/167f8118fc5a99749488b4b9754e149c4261ae2711127032bb2ba18122b6dfae/04_4DM_2_Astro.jpg)
![Two Sentences, Bent, 2019 Urethane casting of a text passage with hair](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9082bfbb3f41a152524254beb5c89ad530652ec1c48e9ece2e7f14e94333941/04_4DM_6_Astro.jpg)
![Detail - Corrective Lens of Page 99, 2019 Text-based Installation An unscrupulous passage Text retrieved from “Latin American History,” by Augusto Montenegro,2009](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77d014eef7eee592378a96a4a9becf60514025b33b4a72a17762e87431d47f64/04_4DM_4_Astro.jpg)
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![Corrective Lens of Page 99, 2019 Text-based Installation An unscrupulous passage Text retrieved from “Latin American History,” by Augusto Montenegro,2009](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f74230112cb25c3fe7e9de9a27f03121e2a73cf3c99aae30a030f3ab0039132e/04_4DM_5_Astro.jpg)
![Enmeshment, 2019 Digital photogram of a resin casted book with hair Archival pigment print, edition of 2/15](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4232d6d9c6fbc8fe25f395f0e9f1fa0b2f9fa22f69518eb33b9fcbae18e6c74b/04_4DM_3_Astro.jpg)
![Three Shadowbooks, 2019 Digital photograph of three resin casted books with hair](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45fb4053c9093615ab430eaa1e64504c177467d7633544696a4ca037ba5b4e2a/IMG_3896.jpg)
Exhibitions
Aftermaths
Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, 2021
Curated by Jameson Paige
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MFA Thesis Show
SAIC, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, 2019
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