Pia Cruzalegui
Eclipsed, a 3 part series (2020-2022) explore archeoastronomy notions from the latitude of the city I live in, capturing images and distorting its values to generate a monochromatic artificial setting like in Eclipsed III. The overly saturated colorful images of Eclipsed II, imagine the mayan culture’s telling of “Sol de Agua.” Water Sun is how mayans described the effect of ultra radiance after a tropical storm has passed and the sun rays oversaturate the environment with intense hues.
Combined digital forms of art making, photography, disposed architectural pieces and natural objects make their way to my studio where I create new and sometimes fragile structures, fragmented narratives for a temporal space. My conversations tend to be extended meditations on our current status quo and my preoccupation with humanity. I have curated group exhibitions, helped organize a collective, created public activations, and developed a gallery space. Most recently, I launched Oral Fixation Art Podcast, a long-term project documenting the lives and art practices of artists.