Description
Through layers of translucent vellum, <> <> (Morir es Vivir) uses drawings, photos, and the collected language of the New Orleans community to consider interconnectivity, individuality, death & living, learning from the past, inheritance, children & families, housing, labor, fossil fuels, prison, revolution, and imagination, all in response to the question: “What must die (institutionally, personally, relationship-wise, belief-wise) and what will thrive in its wake?” This publication shares community members’ responses to this question in written form without delineating speakers from one another, resulting in a collective authorship of a period of time during the 2021 pandemic
During 2021, while in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Marta Rodriguez Maleck created an installation for the New Orleans Museum of Art and the New Orleans Public Library which invited people to discuss the topics included in the book. The content of book resulted in part from these conversations.
This book is the result of the artist’s 2022 Paper Machine Residency.
Marta Rodriguez Maleck is a builder working at the intersection of archives, documentary, and visual mediums including installation, sculpture, and textiles. Maleck was a 2021 Joan Mitchell resident, Tribeca IF/THEN Awardee, Redbull Microgrant Recipient, and Platforms Fund Grant Recipient. They have held residencies at FUTURA in Prague, ACRE, Printed Matter via Ace Hotel, and the Vermont Studio Center. Their films have been featured on the Guardian, PBS, Blackstar, Philadelphia Latino Film Fest, and Double Exposure. Their most recent solo exhibitions were at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the New Orleans Public Library, Baby Blue Gallery in Chicago, and Antenna Gallery. Their work has been featured in New American Paintings, Burnaway, OnCurating, LVL3, BadatSports, and Bust, among other publications. Rodriguez Maleck lives and works in Bulbancha (New Orleans, LA).
