Cristina Rodriguez-Moises

cristina rodríguez-moises

Extraordinary Machine, 2023

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.