their recent work attends to coastal erosion and land loss along the Mississippi River batture, where land is continuously formed and unmade. Gathering and assembling seeds as carriers of memory, adaptation, and resistance, rodriguez maleck builds sculptural forms that sit between artifact and speculative infrastructure, holding opposing forces in tension: protection and disappearance, the labor of holding on and the certainty of loss.
rodriguez maleck received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. their solo exhibition Morir es Vivir was presented at the New Orleans Museum of Art and written about in Hyperallergic, and their work is held in the collections of NOMA and the Criterion Collection. They have participated in residencies including the Joan Mitchell Center, Futura Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, ACRE, and Vermont Studio Center, with grant support from the Joan Mitchell, Andy Warhol, and Tribeca Film foundations, the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, and Red Bull Arts. their films, distributed by the Criterion Collection, have screened internationally, and they host "Reports from New Orleans" on Montez Press Radio.
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