DREAM TEAM BY CRACK RODRIGUEZ*
CO-PRESENTATION WITH LACE (LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS).
OPENS FEBRUARY 27, 2022
DREAM TEAM BY CRACK RODRIGUEZ
Co-curated by LACE Chief Curator Daniela Lieja Quintanar and MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga
The Museum of Latin American Art, together with LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, have the honor of presenting the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of the Salvadorean artist Crack Rodriguez.
DREAM TEAM is not only an emotive title for this exhibition, but also a philosophical and political proclamation by this young artist that centers the complex experience of migration through artistic praxis. As a multi-disciplinary creator and as a Central American, Crack Rodriguez is interested in investigating and interpreting the cultural, religious, spiritual, social, economic, and political codes that delineate and characterize particular aspects of the System. Above all, Rodriguez is most interested in the different modes of seeing this reality, exploring new pathways of interconnectivity, new ways of creating, and dreaming of possible worlds.
Through spontaneous and participatory performances, with help from unaware publics, the artist seeks intersecting points of affinity, which are certainly foreign to the world of art, but profoundly and intuitively in the social collective. Be it through games or gatherings, and proclamations in public spaces, Rodriguez’s artistic elements work as inspiration to create an array of activities and an atmosphere that are aligned with an anti, adversarial energy and narrative.
One of the central elements in the artist’s practice is the use of his own body, displayed and existing in public spaces, and in a constant dynamic with collective life. His performances position him politically, and through parody, game, and hysteria, express his frustration with the difficult Salvadorean social context that includes migration due to violence, and the displacement and aftermath of war – contexts which are all connected to the historical and unequal power relationship with the United States. DREAM TEAM is a body of work that honors the migrant struggle and opens a space to dream and create futures in these lands.
*Commissioned by LACE as part of Intergalactix: against isolation/contra el aislamiento.