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Corazon de Guadalupe
Wall Hanging, 2005. |
In the article “Deus ex Machina: Tradition, Technology and the Chicana futurist Art of Marion C. Martinez”, Catherine S. Ramirez defines the term Chicanafuturism as “chicano cultural production that attends to cultural transformations resulting from new and everyday technologies (including their detritus); that excavates, creates and alters narratives of identity, technology, and the future; that interrogates the promises of science and technology; and that redefines humanism and the human.” (Ramirez, 157-158). Catherine S. Ramirez’s article revolves around the artwork created by the chicana artist Marion C. Martinez, inspired by chicano and pre-columbian iconography. All of these pieces were created as a synthetic collage with salvaged materials from the waste industry. The use of technology waste in her art identifies with the waste mostly near latino communities in New Mexico, “underscore New Mexico’s history as a dumping ground for the remnant of twentieth century technology” (Ramirez, 147). This source of technological material serves as a testimony or symbolism of a who they are or were. When looking at Martinez's art website, my favorite was Corazon de Guadalupe completed in 2005. The artist uses layers of identifiable materials that can be found within computers or television sets, such as, circuit boards, wires. Each piece is cut down to have a goal in composition, with bold and contrasty colors, with the use of inspiration from iconography.
Hi Simone, this piece caught my eye as well. I agree that each piece of material that she used is purposeful because I cannot imagine anything missing. I also found it inspiring because although the Virgen is an iconography that we have seen, no two artists that we have looked at have done it the same.
ReplyDeleteHi Simone, I also really appreciated the way this artists incorporated salvaged materials into her art. I also really like that you defined Chicanafutarism with a clear reference to the article, it really helped my understanding of what this term means.
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