There Is No There, 2009. Triptych. Each panel: 20h x 13.33w. Archival inkjet print, plexiglass, white silkscreen ink.
Weatherscapes is an artwork series exploring the relationship of the weather and the landscape as it relates to human scale. Weather—fog, lightning, rain, ice, clouds—inhabits the otherwise vast abstract space between the body and the distant horizon. Weatherscapes capture a more compact environment, one that the body can engage with physically, creating a continuous and intimate ensemble between the body, the weather and the landscape.
Rebeca Méndez was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission to create an art installation for the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk warehouse in Santa Fe Springs, Los Angeles County, CA. Reviewed by The Los Angeles Times
Rebeca Méndez: About To Happen. 10.07.06 – 12.07.06. AndLab / Art / Los Angeles. Curator: Sunook Park. Méndez’s latest photographic work About to Happen consists of isolated single still frames of her 16mm film shoot throughout Iceland. In Dettifoss 001, Méndez captures an instant of Europe’s largest waterfall—500 cubic metres per second, and in Brekka 001, a moment of giant rye grass being forcefully blown by the wind.
Rebeca is working on a new photographic series called Altiplano documenting landscapes in the Altiplano in Chile, 5000 meters above sea level.
Here Over There is a photographic series that began on the island of Chiloe, Chile, on December 23, 2002 and continues to this date. I photograph the beds I sleep on during my travels with consistent parameters—the image is taken as soon as I awake, on the first morning of my stay, with the available light, with a hand held camera, and from the same point of view. The idea of my hotel beds came from the thought that I might never sleep in this bed again, and most likely I will never even remember this intimate moment of full surrendering.
‘Méndez, in her Homeland series, explores a sense of ambivalence—while her panoramic images allude to the sublime in nature, they simultaneously reveal their synthetic process of construction. Incorporated in each landscape is a short line of text capturing a sensation, memory, or experience triggered by the landscape, including references to sustenance—for example, the words ‘till the last tree’ over an image of cows grazing.
