REBECA
MÉNDEZ

There Is No There, 2009. Triptych. Each panel: 20h x 13.33w. Archival inkjet print, plexiglass, white silkscreen ink. There Is No There, is a visual and verbal loop, structured as a triptych to emphasize the organizational logic of both the photograph and of language. The work attempts to affirm the existence of something and, at the same time, to negate its position in time and space. Purposely, the work asks you to loop back to the first frame to complete the last ‘There’ of the famous quote by Gertrude Stein ‘There is no there, there.’ With the work’s focus on issues of ambiguity and indetermination it addresses memory. In Gertrude Stein’s words: ‘…that is what makes your identity not a thing that exists but something you do or do not remember.’