Rebeca Romero: Kon-Tiki, making waves

Kon-tiki, making waves' was part of Romero's MFA graduate presentation at Goldsmiths. It was one of the first works the artist made when she started exploring the idea of reviving ancient icons and catapulting them into an alternate future.

Romero picked this image from an archive she found online, potentially, originally displayed in a pre-columbian construction. How does the reading of the image change once we change its materiality? What new stories can we create? These were some of the questions she was asking herself at the time. 

 

Product Information

2020

Digital embroidery on metallic fabric.

67 cm x 50 cm x 1 cm

 

About the Artist

Rebeca Romero is an interdisciplinary artist born in Peru and based in London. 
Often combining Pre-Columbian iconography with advanced scanning and printing technologies and materials ranging from clay to plastic, her works swing drastically between the past and an alternate future. Examining the story-telling potential of artefacts, Romero looks into the intervention of the digital archive as a histiry-making technique.  Online museum archives become an excavation ground for the collection of data that she later recontextualizes, reassembles and re-presents.

With a focus on new materialities, processes of production and collaboration between artist and machine, her work proposes a further re-understanding of hegemonic notions of intelligence, technology and knowledge.

She received an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University of London (2020). Selected exhibitions include: ‘Cosmotechnics’, FACT, Liverpool, 2024, 'Holding Cosmic Dust', Corinium Museum, Circenster, 2024, ‘Trinta/Treinta/Thirty years of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America', Art Exchange, Essex, 2023, 'Oracles and Algorithms', Copperfield, London, 2022, ‘and so on’, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, 2022 and ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, South London Gallery, London, 2022 among others.

 

Shipping

This work is part of our 2024 Winter Fundraiser and will be available for collection or shipping from 14th - 20th December. Please note all items will be shipped via Royal Mail Tracked 24 unless stated otherwise.