Rodrigo Nicolas Albornoz (Argentina) is a Visual Artist, Media Artist and Social Art Researcher based in Sweden, with a BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and an MFA from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts & Design in Stockholm, Sweden. The main interest of his work involves questions about the life of marginal societies, indigenous communities, backyard cultures or peripheries to Western European culture. Based on his personal experience of displacement from South America to Europe, he critically engages those realities as a ‘social emergency’ for which decolonial options are needed. Currently working with the problematics of informal labour in colonial countries, his previous works include:Deambulando (2020) Mobile sculptures for public space, award for the XXI International Biennial of Santa Cruz, Bolivia; and Purification Lab (2019) multimedia art installation, referring to social injustices in the illegal use of forced labour in narcotics production.
Alumni
Participatory Action within “Over the Ruins” Multidisciplinary event at L’occulta, Barcelona, Spain.
Participatory Action. Part of the anual show “Geting Lost” with “The Orchid & the Wasp” Exhibition at NDSM Fuse. Curated from Maud Onk. Amsterdam The Netherlands.
Participatory Action “Research Week of KKH Royal Institute of Art & Decolonising Architecture Advanced course”
This project of artistic research and participatory action began in the year 2020 in the Research Week with “Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Course” -DAAS- at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, and it continues with interventions in different sites around the world.
Washing of preconceived thoughts allows us to see the world with different eyes. The public is invited to write down their “subjective patterns of Western behaviour” on pieces of clothes, wash it away with soap and water and hang them on a rope. By washing away the conditioned patterns, this work helps us to recapitulate and see what is true in our lives, decolonizing our way of thinking.
Thousands of recipes were collected in pieces of fabric from people of distant nationalities, genders, and religions.
