REBECA MÉNDEZ: AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT
Group Exhibition
Nevada Museum of Art
Curated by JoAnn Northrup
September 1, 2012 – February 10, 2013
The Nevada Museum of Art presents a video installation by artist and designer Rebeca Méndez, recipient of the 2012 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award.
Méndez’s work investigates the nature of matter through a focus on cycles and systems, specifically the forces and cross-rhythmic tensions that make natural phenomena emerge. This interest stems from her childhood in Mexico City and the Mexican jungle, where she would follow her father in pursuit of Mayan archaeology. Common to both environments is hypercomplexity, multiplicity, and constant change. Méndez’s move to Los Angeles and her expeditions to geologically young Iceland have furthered this impetus.
Says Méndez: “In my work I have always been interested in limits, and I am interested in where those limits are blurred. Always, when those categories are leaking or meshing together, they create the grotesque and ambiguous. It is in those areas that I really like operating.”
— JoAnn Northrup, Chief Curator, NMA
Nevada Museum of Art
Curated by JoAnn Northrup
September 1, 2012 – February 10, 2013
The Nevada Museum of Art presents a video installation by artist and designer Rebeca Méndez, recipient of the 2012 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award.
Méndez’s work investigates the nature of matter through a focus on cycles and systems, specifically the forces and cross-rhythmic tensions that make natural phenomena emerge. This interest stems from her childhood in Mexico City and the Mexican jungle, where she would follow her father in pursuit of Mayan archaeology. Common to both environments is hypercomplexity, multiplicity, and constant change. Méndez’s move to Los Angeles and her expeditions to geologically young Iceland have furthered this impetus.
Says Méndez: “In my work I have always been interested in limits, and I am interested in where those limits are blurred. Always, when those categories are leaking or meshing together, they create the grotesque and ambiguous. It is in those areas that I really like operating.”
— JoAnn Northrup, Chief Curator, NMA
Link to Never Happened Again, Glaciers 2
Link to At Any Given Moment, Fall 2
Link to At Any Given Moment, Grass 2
