I have launched a small collection from the series Tropical White to be included in the Open Sea NFT trading platform.
As an emerging space to produce art in, I belive it is quite relevant to research, dig and also tropicalize this territory.
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Click the pinapples to see the collection.
Santa María de la Piña is an animated collage that presents the bodies and territories of Costa Rica as colonized representations. The trans-femme body is a form of resistance, where self-production rebels against heteronormatity. Pineapple is the main export from my country, where they have cause enormous controversy related to the environmental damage and the disproportion in which they create wealth and fail to share it.
This work has original chicharra sounds recorded on the south pacific beaches.
White Pineapple started this whole project. When I found a pineapple from Costa Rica, my country, I realized that goods travel easily while people are requested to prove their right to migrate. This difference points out one of the most notable traits of current forms of colonialism: extractivism. In my country, the extents of land this product takes are vast and the wages paid are usually meagre. Concerns about the ecological impact of this underline the cost-benefit relationship that small countries like mine have with world trade: this product is the highest source of income for Costa Rica, making it hard to regulate as its stakes are so high.
Sighting of Amazing Sea Creatures explores the notion of tropicality using video collage and parody as strategies. The notion of tropicality is a form of "representational colonialism", where tropical land and bodies are prescribed and groomed for the pleasure of the exploiters.
Tropical Paradise depicts a series of digital objects that use parody as an artistic strategy. Tropical Paradise represents the colonization process implied in the creation of tropicality, particularly in the tourism industry. Tourism creates non-existent towns, full of magical and exoticed creatures, and populated by happy and well-paid collaborators. None of those exist.
This work has AR interface, download https://artivive.com/ app to see it.
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Body Reproduction explores the notion of reproducibility as the framework of colonialism. The colonialist machinery is set to reproduce and groom bodies, experiences, and landscapes, for its enjoyment. This mode of exploitation prescribes the subjects it dominates by reproducing their expected stereotypes and cliches upon their bodies.