I am interested in exposing the bones of reality and rearranging their joints. Living between Amsterdam and Mexico City, I look at the hidden infrastructures that sustain contemporary realities. I am drawn to infrastructures and their standardized languages, which can be found at radically different scales: in a handrail inside a metro station, in networks of gas, water, data, and electricity spreading above and below our bodies. In my sculptures and installations, I merge these industrial infrastructures with their counterparts inside the human body: an ankle supporting a standing posture, nerves circulating information, a kneecap hinging mechanically.

Treating infrastructure as an organism, I lift surfaces, make insertions into imagined anatomies, carve cables, pipes, and screens, implant alien objects, and give them new joints and mechanical functions—all to draw them out of their supposed neutrality. Through these operations, the work unsettles standardized forms and opens the possibility for other fictions.

My practice is guided by material processes and intuition, while also considering infrastructure as both a material and symbolic actor within a web of political relations. My work touches on questions around water distribution and extraction processes such as mining and drilling, and on the systems that shape resources and territories.

Welcome to my website, If you have any questions or want to start a conversation feel free to message me, I’d be happy to chat:

info@rodrigored.com

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Do you want to read the recent interview with Untitled Db? See

Together with Katy Hundertmark and Nuno Beijinho, I run Mutter, a project space for contemporary art in Amsterdam. See