about
Cristina Rodriguez-Moises's multidisciplinary work arises from an instinct to seek discomfort and scrutinize the nature of materials, behaviors, and social ideals that do not conform to hegemonic notions of beauty, cleanliness, and/or social order. To achieve this, the legibility of Cristina’s work is regularly complicated through segmentation or material experimentation. There is a roughness to its exhibition and/or creation that highlights the violence inherent in material manipulation and the "taking" of a photographic image. This instinct takes the form of fragmented photo series, material scratching and breaking, and uncanny performances.
Cristina began working as a photographer and became captivated by how the medium could violate our most ingrained perceptions of truth, equating photographic representation to truth-telling and evidence. She began to deconstruct this idea in a simultaneous effort to explore how photos of herself and her body changed or manipulated her self-perception. This work allowed her to exist beyond herself, as a malleable entity, and explore with scrutiny her existence while crossing socially acceptable boundaries of self-exploration and violence. Furthermore, Cristina's art and motivations are constantly evolving, utilizing transgression to research relevant issues such as eating disorders, gentrification, and immigration.
Check Stills, 2022
Posing in Bondage, 2022
Extraordinary Machine 1 & 2, 2023
Hardware/Software, 2023
flesh does, 2023
squeeze
bend
bend
contract
being and imitating flora, 2024
locution, 2024
Body is A, 2023
Desierto Yellow Brick Road (Enforcement
Through Deterrence), 2024
Wood, Metals, and Body Parts, 2024
contact
rodriguezac@uchicago.edu
Chicago, IL