https://martarodriguezmaleck.com Marta Rodriguez Maleck Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:55:49 +0000 https://martarodriguezmaleck.com en https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Homepage Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:55:49 +0000 Marta Rodriguez Maleck https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Homepage marta rodriguez maleck (they/them) is a transdisciplinary, research-based artist working in the Gulf South, where land is built and lost in the same breath and where human efforts to control water and storm tend to unmake the ground they mean to save. Across sculpture, film, and ritual, their work moves between what the land knows how to do on its own and what people bring to it: desire, grief, labor, sexuality, and collective memory. about selected works <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6eef078498267127a509378f368fc9f9f424240c1ff1e464e1dede0122482cb/Marta.Mehle.April2026-06.small-1.jpg" data-mid="249346586" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6eef078498267127a509378f368fc9f9f424240c1ff1e464e1dede0122482cb/Marta.Mehle.April2026-06.small-1.jpg" /> Blankets for the Future 2026 Ongoing series of seed blankets as speculative tools for a future shaped by memory, protection, and repair within a landscape shaped by water and ongoing transformation. <img width="9568" height="6376" width_o="9568" height_o="6376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/059543a3a57427ceea319250159b3fcac9c07703354cede232efed420c565ed5/DSC09122.jpg" data-mid="250144742" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/059543a3a57427ceea319250159b3fcac9c07703354cede232efed420c565ed5/DSC09122.jpg" /> Hunting for Orchids 2025 Ongoing series tracing desire, secrecy, fetishization, extraction, and uncredited labor through histories of queerness and the mythology surrounding Las Pozas in Xilitla, Mexico. <img width="961" height="1440" width_o="961" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41d53da3055f8e046929b16ba8dbe7c896a33477b0677bb6da4746dfe1e22f69/03.jpeg" data-mid="249346584" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/961/i/41d53da3055f8e046929b16ba8dbe7c896a33477b0677bb6da4746dfe1e22f69/03.jpeg" /> Sigils 2023–2025 Sculpture series of warnings and invitations, drawing from deities, captivity, queer survival, and kinship under constraint. <img width="1650" height="1236" width_o="1650" height_o="1236" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d609d3c9f64c25a97781f00508214cdc4f9cd58d133d7f592618bad866648d2/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-1.53.01PM.png" data-mid="249346588" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d609d3c9f64c25a97781f00508214cdc4f9cd58d133d7f592618bad866648d2/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-1.53.01PM.png" /> Tools of Resistance 2022 Interactive audio sculptures made from interviews with organizers, cultural workers, and advocates whose lives connect resistance to land, law, culture, and collective care. <img width="1170" height="916" width_o="1170" height_o="916" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8eeeaa2facae4ddf793aef9837a87511d03c9b49ec1913e16c565b9cb8aba41/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.21.18PM.png" data-mid="249346573" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8eeeaa2facae4ddf793aef9837a87511d03c9b49ec1913e16c565b9cb8aba41/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.21.18PM.png" /> Underfoot 2023 Public actions made close to the ground, where poetry is pressed potholes at civic and carceral sites and the ground of a communal garden dedicated to families of incarerated folk. <img width="2100" height="1324" width_o="2100" height_o="1324" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f637e2511d91fa2ac4efb7855720c8fa7325ed661e1a18c738f372870a32c2a/MoriresVivirConversations_NOMA_2021.jpeg" data-mid="249346559" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f637e2511d91fa2ac4efb7855720c8fa7325ed661e1a18c738f372870a32c2a/MoriresVivirConversations_NOMA_2021.jpeg" /> Morir es Vivir / Vivir es Morir 2021–2022 New Orleans Museum of Art / New Orleans Public Library A multi-part project made through recorded conversations during the Covid-19 pandemic with people across New Orleans about grief, loss, mortality, rebirth, healing, hope, and what might thrive after endings. <img width="1994" height="1342" width_o="1994" height_o="1342" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7805d5caf31b0556b426c1ec28d4a0f1fa14003f2d9cb302bb9650d37f57d5b0/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-2.10.11PM.png" data-mid="249346585" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7805d5caf31b0556b426c1ec28d4a0f1fa14003f2d9cb302bb9650d37f57d5b0/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-2.10.11PM.png" /> Radio, Documentary, Public Media 2020–present Documentary, radio, and public-facing media projects made with workers, organizers, and residents of New Orleans. contact https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Blankets-for-the-Future Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:36:31 +0000 Marta Rodriguez Maleck https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Blankets-for-the-Future Blankets for the Future Blankets for the Future is a series of sculptural blankets made from seeds native to the Gulf South — acorns from live oak, water oak, and overcup oak, and the clinging burrs of cocklebur — joined with brass into suspended, lattice-like fields. Arranged in repeating clusters, the works draw on quilting as a structure of protection, echoing the interwoven root systems and seed-dispersal strategies of flood-adapted species that hold disappearing ground together against erosion. The series situates seeds as tools for memory, survival, and repair within a landscape shaped by ongoing transformation. <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c3f16f1ae38861df7071cc2525d0da832cf34f7e6e49c6eb69fc620a3e2d0b4/Marta.Mehle.April2026-09.small.jpg" data-mid="249259920" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c3f16f1ae38861df7071cc2525d0da832cf34f7e6e49c6eb69fc620a3e2d0b4/Marta.Mehle.April2026-09.small.jpg" />Lay Me Down Before Water Knocks at the Door (Acorn Quilt), 2026Water oak, Southern live oak, and overcup oak acorns, brass77 × 92 × 1 inches <img width="1668" height="2500" width_o="1668" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd0bc482df3a396f8d1be6ad2fd7399e35833e587adc43a5f1d09117e38f1026/07.jpg" data-mid="249259931" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd0bc482df3a396f8d1be6ad2fd7399e35833e587adc43a5f1d09117e38f1026/07.jpg" />Lay Me Down Before Water Knocks at the Door (Cocklebur Quilt), 2026Cocklebur seed pods, brass55 × 70 × 1 inches <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f97bc9a62e9ecbcee9ef40015bcdbd93d9db59fba123996e30ee9e8d26bfa151/Marta.Mehle.April2026-06.small.jpg" data-mid="249259922" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f97bc9a62e9ecbcee9ef40015bcdbd93d9db59fba123996e30ee9e8d26bfa151/Marta.Mehle.April2026-06.small.jpg" /> <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60136a3d52bdff9c045678dcfebe6b0cfac92aea625726166258ebe26aff3d5f/Marta.Mehle.April2026-02.small.jpg" data-mid="249259921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60136a3d52bdff9c045678dcfebe6b0cfac92aea625726166258ebe26aff3d5f/Marta.Mehle.April2026-02.small.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1ac35f4642a5971d2fefb77fd6025be65cb89a848f1c64c6cd266c56c015394/Marta.Mehle.April2026-04.small.jpg" data-mid="249259924" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1ac35f4642a5971d2fefb77fd6025be65cb89a848f1c64c6cd266c56c015394/Marta.Mehle.April2026-04.small.jpg" /> <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d8186df0ea1f6e9e74a59ec4e095e353cd9f459ecca96fe5bc5a5e3604ddfcb/Marta.Mehle.April2026-09.small.jpg" data-mid="249259925" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d8186df0ea1f6e9e74a59ec4e095e353cd9f459ecca96fe5bc5a5e3604ddfcb/Marta.Mehle.April2026-09.small.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f7bd465322b5272183b21256eeee7056767809c2a4086ab35bde65f07141d73/Marta.Mehle.Install.Feb2026-06.small.jpg" data-mid="249259943" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f7bd465322b5272183b21256eeee7056767809c2a4086ab35bde65f07141d73/Marta.Mehle.Install.Feb2026-06.small.jpg" /> <img width="1667" height="2500" width_o="1667" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/478b1d1c01ea933900954140d644923635afd0898e37d91ae69e01815c2b3953/Marta.Mehle.Install.Feb2026-03.small.jpg" data-mid="249259942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/478b1d1c01ea933900954140d644923635afd0898e37d91ae69e01815c2b3953/Marta.Mehle.Install.Feb2026-03.small.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2500" width_o="2000" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/444371c38af96989423475363818b69f4a8335096c14eee095a7f9aed37f5200/08.jpg" data-mid="249259932" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/444371c38af96989423475363818b69f4a8335096c14eee095a7f9aed37f5200/08.jpg" /> &lt; Home | &nbsp;Next Project &gt; https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Hunting-for-Orchids Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:37:01 +0000 Marta Rodriguez Maleck https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Hunting-for-Orchids Hunting for OrchidsIn 1944, Edward James, an English aristocrat and patron of Surrealism, arrived in Xilitla, Mexico. He had fled England after his wife named his homosexuality in their divorce papers. Rumor has it he met Plutarco Gastélum, "a tour guide who brought him hunting." Locals will clarify they were hunting for orchids, which had become a European craze and colonial fantasy. They also confirm a long, secret queer relationship that led to a collaboration: Las Pozas, a surrealist garden in the jungle. As the two traveled the world, they sent inspiration back to their fabricators on photographs and postcards; fabricators who remain uncredited to this day for the moldes and concrete structures that make up Las Pozas. My interest in the story, and in the site, is how desire, extraction, and the power to name decide who is remembered. <img width="9568" height="6376" width_o="9568" height_o="6376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/600357ed78f8d920185cc5ee6779e37f2bf7650753d2f982acc6b1e2c96d2d35/DSC09122.jpg" data-mid="250144732" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/600357ed78f8d920185cc5ee6779e37f2bf7650753d2f982acc6b1e2c96d2d35/DSC09122.jpg" />Hunting for Orchids (snake/cyclops/clit), 2025Carved cherry, maple, and walnut wood; tung oil15 × 18 × 15 inches <img width="9568" height="6376" width_o="9568" height_o="6376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63616f3cfc898a9ae54816adb00743a6480b20751070cddfbf1ceda5195d3d2b/DSC09117.jpg" data-mid="250144730" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63616f3cfc898a9ae54816adb00743a6480b20751070cddfbf1ceda5195d3d2b/DSC09117.jpg" /> <img width="1350" height="1281" width_o="1350" height_o="1281" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dd51ee12ae156b7a3f7ed691e827b4248dabdd7698cd3a137c0930ac408bec6/LasPozasHeartShapedMould.jpg" data-mid="249260031" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0dd51ee12ae156b7a3f7ed691e827b4248dabdd7698cd3a137c0930ac408bec6/LasPozasHeartShapedMould.jpg" />Heart Molde, 2023Poplar wood, brads, wax, concrete, confetti, blood, stain24 × 24 × 8 inches <img width="2000" height="1658" width_o="2000" height_o="1658" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1865f362ba2c99e4da4849529eea83c4d20a98c2401b835a84594f05e9f4a59/skohegan5.jpg" data-mid="249262356" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1865f362ba2c99e4da4849529eea83c4d20a98c2401b835a84594f05e9f4a59/skohegan5.jpg" />alien / illegal / undocumented / immigrant / explorer / settler / colonizer, 2023earth, concrete, confetti, balloons, blood24 × 24 × 8 inches <img width="4160" height="6240" width_o="4160" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a216de993515b6f12605b8ea0117b81b792c3d68315daac8bc3445bf6ebc618/X41A6014.JPG" data-mid="249262358" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a216de993515b6f12605b8ea0117b81b792c3d68315daac8bc3445bf6ebc618/X41A6014.JPG" /> <img width="9568" height="6376" width_o="9568" height_o="6376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5290b546dfc646940006e0701c8351fe09f8e89885039f7c9bf4a938556a67cd/DSC09121.jpg" data-mid="250144731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5290b546dfc646940006e0701c8351fe09f8e89885039f7c9bf4a938556a67cd/DSC09121.jpg" /> &lt; Home | &nbsp;Next Project &gt; https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Sigils Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:37:14 +0000 Marta Rodriguez Maleck https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Sigils Sigils WorkSigils turn like weathervanes, warning intruders and welcoming allies. Built from forged steel, brass, concrete, stone, handmade nests, and patina, the works borrow the language of symbols, talons, condor bodies, and deities. Their forms reference beings shaped through captivity and reintroduction, and gesture toward queer survival, protection, and kinship formed under constraint. As the viewer moves, letters fragment and reassemble, shifting between message, omen, and abstraction. <img width="3003" height="4500" width_o="3003" height_o="4500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6472a6b5f20f20136ce481537a4478d68e9ac1d51cf63cd5d29a7fbc1f60c54/sigil-sculptures.jpg" data-mid="249262716" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6472a6b5f20f20136ce481537a4478d68e9ac1d51cf63cd5d29a7fbc1f60c54/sigil-sculptures.jpg" />All who are invited feel welcome, 2024Dried grasses bird nest, bronze condor talon, brass devil’s trumpet, steel, asphalt, concrete, rust8 feet 5 inches × 8 feet × 6 feet <img width="961" height="1440" width_o="961" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de38b0d82ea4b1e341bb25236863a76b2f74e99ecb2572bb653e7a7a2fdb6271/03.jpeg" data-mid="249262745" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/961/i/de38b0d82ea4b1e341bb25236863a76b2f74e99ecb2572bb653e7a7a2fdb6271/03.jpeg" /> <img width="961" height="1440" width_o="961" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ec4727cccb8a2f481a691030f3db58d00ab4cae05140f3142690fe2bccf44b1/02.jpeg" data-mid="249262800" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/961/i/0ec4727cccb8a2f481a691030f3db58d00ab4cae05140f3142690fe2bccf44b1/02.jpeg" /> <img width="961" height="1440" width_o="961" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e800a3e336fe2967b48497adf6ceb7506a8c9cf9602e55e86753dcc662560d3/05.jpeg" data-mid="249263164" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/961/i/0e800a3e336fe2967b48497adf6ceb7506a8c9cf9602e55e86753dcc662560d3/05.jpeg" />we are exactly where we are supposed to be, 2024Brass condor beak, steel, concrete, rust, found tripod7 feet 6 inches × 4 feet × 4 feet <img width="1050" height="1573" width_o="1050" height_o="1573" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6bc49f1e431fe44bb94d4f7b5a19559412afbc763f9c5a61700ec54e09ed06a/CondorMotherandChild.jpg" data-mid="249262747" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6bc49f1e431fe44bb94d4f7b5a19559412afbc763f9c5a61700ec54e09ed06a/CondorMotherandChild.jpg" /> <img width="968" height="1440" width_o="968" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db525db0cb249dedcabe85e09130b311ce7f52d9d44ce5cbb9488d42db054bdb/07.jpeg" data-mid="249263165" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/968/i/db525db0cb249dedcabe85e09130b311ce7f52d9d44ce5cbb9488d42db054bdb/07.jpeg" /> <img width="3017" height="2000" width_o="3017" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a647be387f54cacf0e4f72b2da7e98826b0dcf01863d28e6707feae132c5b209/DSC_0533.jpg" data-mid="249262798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a647be387f54cacf0e4f72b2da7e98826b0dcf01863d28e6707feae132c5b209/DSC_0533.jpg" />Winged Familiar, 2025Cast bronze, hand-cut brass wings, moving armature, ocean stone with iron patina12 × 10 × 8 inches <img width="3017" height="2000" width_o="3017" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f31e273fd9f4cbfdaf25223edd35138c0dfd03cf28f26f271dbd9f0914dd0b98/DSC_0529.jpg" data-mid="249262799" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f31e273fd9f4cbfdaf25223edd35138c0dfd03cf28f26f271dbd9f0914dd0b98/DSC_0529.jpg" /> <img width="1325" height="2000" width_o="1325" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1af9b3448f001d89a8b1db1c2ba55bd602f88302e14e57b11f6eb0e91f00aa8a/DSC_0490.jpg" data-mid="249262793" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1af9b3448f001d89a8b1db1c2ba55bd602f88302e14e57b11f6eb0e91f00aa8a/DSC_0490.jpg" />cookie Lucifer, 2025Cast bronze, forged steel, brass wings, paper clay, ocean stone carrying iron patina23 × 10 × 9 inches <img width="667" height="1000" width_o="667" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f9b7f3c25e3bfe4beb08e8f605705fc4ad215d664c846bc889596f7bb831f2f/3headedcondor.jpg" data-mid="249262746" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/667/i/5f9b7f3c25e3bfe4beb08e8f605705fc4ad215d664c846bc889596f7bb831f2f/3headedcondor.jpg" />Condor genesis, 2024Steel24 × 14 × 8 inchesImage: EFA Project Space, Manhattan, NY <img width="2500" height="2939" width_o="2500" height_o="2939" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c64d538c3b4da971d9624199d766d3cf70846f90b8a8beeef0c5ca6e4e1156d/cookie-s-Wings-copy.jpg" data-mid="249262748" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c64d538c3b4da971d9624199d766d3cf70846f90b8a8beeef0c5ca6e4e1156d/cookie-s-Wings-copy.jpg" />Cookie Lucifer’s Wings, 2024Steel36 × 56 × 50 inchesImage: EFA Project Space, Manhattan, NY &lt; Home | &nbsp;Next Project &gt; https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Tools-of-Resistance Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:51:42 +0000 Marta Rodriguez Maleck https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Tools-of-Resistance Tools of Resistance Tools of Resistance is a series of interactive audio sculptures made from interviews with organizers, cultural workers, and advocates whose lives connect resistance to memory, land, law, culture, and collective care. Each sculpture holds a recorded conversation inside an object. Headphones invite viewers to listen while materials such as library cards, flowers, cassette tapes, and collection buckets. Handwritten questions become physical extensions of the stories being told. The series asks how resistance is preserved, practiced, and passed on. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd4133a76ba9a6da60b61e1dfce4eb9a26f213d1d28a683ce7f94b5cf2495c1b/IMG_7429.JPG" data-mid="249263750" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bd4133a76ba9a6da60b61e1dfce4eb9a26f213d1d28a683ce7f94b5cf2495c1b/IMG_7429.JPG" />Tools of Resistance: Pat Bryant, 2022Mixed media sculpture with audio interview This work centers on a recreated library card referencing Pat Bryant’s father becoming the first Black person to integrate the Smithfield, North Carolina Public Library. Headphones play excerpts from an interview with Bryant on organizing, history, and cultural change. The recreation of Bryant’s father’s lost library card was made through research in the State Archives of North Carolina, with guidance from members of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b87223464360d6e0e1372e07887e97580ef4bcd7455447d527bcaedc5c846f40/IMG_7422.JPG" data-mid="249263749" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b87223464360d6e0e1372e07887e97580ef4bcd7455447d527bcaedc5c846f40/IMG_7422.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bab93839feca096fbcb695bee1baa56701281842d35cf1540dec8ae125539e5/IMG_7444.JPG" data-mid="249263751" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9bab93839feca096fbcb695bee1baa56701281842d35cf1540dec8ae125539e5/IMG_7444.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1cc9c97b8515f236d52c4b86177e064aa6aa8b1a9d40894649dc6ebb08324bf0/IMG_7452.JPG" data-mid="249263752" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1cc9c97b8515f236d52c4b86177e064aa6aa8b1a9d40894649dc6ebb08324bf0/IMG_7452.JPG" />Tools of Resistance: Mariah Moore, 2022Mixed media sculpture with audio interview This work uses shared land and flowers as symbols of care, inheritance, and housing justice, inspired by Mariah Moore’s work founding House of Tulip, a Community Land Trust creating housing solutions for transgender and gender nonconforming people in Louisiana. Headphones play excerpts from an interview with Moore on land ownership, community care, and collective futures. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/098d244bb371d2e90e2f391de29342bdff46d09441dda206da716f5320efc061/IMG_7464.JPG" data-mid="249263753" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/098d244bb371d2e90e2f391de29342bdff46d09441dda206da716f5320efc061/IMG_7464.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1514ca4a9a7354fadcab78b8df49628c3e75cfa9070e365094facb34f310ee1/IMG_7460.JPG" data-mid="249263754" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1514ca4a9a7354fadcab78b8df49628c3e75cfa9070e365094facb34f310ee1/IMG_7460.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d622e0bf8ac94031f9fdaf43b5ff2dd4c51a720fd9ddb9a67e7632fb44ae5d71/IMG_7459.JPG" data-mid="249263755" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d622e0bf8ac94031f9fdaf43b5ff2dd4c51a720fd9ddb9a67e7632fb44ae5d71/IMG_7459.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61869c0e358af0c2f7fcac3d36c2f98a6c99f8e3ed9fef356cf8b75210ce886e/IMG_7466.JPG" data-mid="249263757" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61869c0e358af0c2f7fcac3d36c2f98a6c99f8e3ed9fef356cf8b75210ce886e/IMG_7466.JPG" />Tools of Resistance: Ernest Jones, 2022Mixed media sculpture with audio interview This work references evidence and language as tools used by civil rights attorney Ernest Jones in defending Black liberation organizers in New Orleans. Headphones play excerpts from an interview with Jones on law, resistance, and using systems of power to protect oppressed communities. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa7ef8ab1822a46bb929bc97c200cb267803e0f155e63c59a3119dfec99bfdd4/IMG_7467.JPG" data-mid="249263758" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa7ef8ab1822a46bb929bc97c200cb267803e0f155e63c59a3119dfec99bfdd4/IMG_7467.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba6f3dd3213b573e6c24bc9e70e1877fb60761cdfad105dd7505a723ae2f34cd/IMG_7473.JPG" data-mid="249263756" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba6f3dd3213b573e6c24bc9e70e1877fb60761cdfad105dd7505a723ae2f34cd/IMG_7473.JPG" /> <img width="608" height="686" width_o="608" height_o="686" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f5dce491a36e265357a6520053e2e026ff63bd7619855b57ca3048f71e22736/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.52.05PM.png" data-mid="249264166" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/608/i/8f5dce491a36e265357a6520053e2e026ff63bd7619855b57ca3048f71e22736/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.52.05PM.png" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/053fc9e9ef834d0733100a13f9804436f6fd32f8f32fe323b139abd1773fb7e2/IMG_7480.JPG" data-mid="249263760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/053fc9e9ef834d0733100a13f9804436f6fd32f8f32fe323b139abd1773fb7e2/IMG_7480.JPG" />Tools of Resistance: Anne Rolfes, 2022Mixed media sculpture with audio interview This work focuses on the bucket, an accessible air-testing tool used by residents to collect air samples near refineries and chemical plants. Connected to Anne Rolfes’s work with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, the sculpture considers how communities transform lived experience into evidence they can use to understand, document, and challenge toxic pollution. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95133403a38573ff5a87a670f3062098e2b71744ebfdabeeda6cd6f68498c480/IMG_7479.JPG" data-mid="249263761" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95133403a38573ff5a87a670f3062098e2b71744ebfdabeeda6cd6f68498c480/IMG_7479.JPG" /> &lt; Home | &nbsp;Next Project &gt; https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Underfoot Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:37:47 +0000 Marta Rodriguez Maleck https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Underfoot UnderfootPerformance, public intervention, and photographic installation Underfoot gathers photographs from public actions made close to the ground. At civic, carceral, and communal sites, I knelt into sidewalks, streets, and broken patches of earth, pressing short questions into concrete and soil. The project began as a participatory performance at Solitary Gardens’ Grief Garden dedicated to Herman Wallace of the Angola 3, who often said, “morality and legality do not shake hands.” Together, participants read from the garden’s library and posed a new question as a permanent installation: “where do morality and legality diverge?” The work expanded into the streets through temporary inscriptions placed in potholes outside the New Orleans Municipal Court and the Orleans Parish jail entrance. Repeating the phrase “and diverge…” in broken pavement, the question moved from a space of grief and gathering into sites where law, punishment, and public life meet. The marks are positioned to be stepped over. Through photographic clusters, Underfoot holds these temporary inscriptions as evidence of attention and refusal. <img width="2036" height="1086" width_o="2036" height_o="1086" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82e5053a8eb55fe36e1043a75f2dc504f8c1d420132cc82f022475978d03c606/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.01.19PM.png" data-mid="249263904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82e5053a8eb55fe36e1043a75f2dc504f8c1d420132cc82f022475978d03c606/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.01.19PM.png" /> <img width="2414" height="1270" width_o="2414" height_o="1270" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0596eaab5d8e83d2d5cca68e8597e77b63e43e780467cd51d11d98786503d08c/2-mix-concrete.png" data-mid="249263942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0596eaab5d8e83d2d5cca68e8597e77b63e43e780467cd51d11d98786503d08c/2-mix-concrete.png" /> <img width="2416" height="1272" width_o="2416" height_o="1272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0add84ade30bf2abe34656d4a993dbe913bb1088cec0d75d6bd1600788c086e/3-lay-concrete.png" data-mid="249263943" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0add84ade30bf2abe34656d4a993dbe913bb1088cec0d75d6bd1600788c086e/3-lay-concrete.png" /> <img width="2414" height="1266" width_o="2414" height_o="1266" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e45985a04ded5959026d55dd4b6c31dad2a4fb2c6781206f6516ba99290d843e/6-fin.png" data-mid="249263946" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e45985a04ded5959026d55dd4b6c31dad2a4fb2c6781206f6516ba99290d843e/6-fin.png" />Orleans Parish Criminal District Court <img width="2414" height="1274" width_o="2414" height_o="1274" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6929ef425a173026c444e0f75b968b050214eb642b8d97c61c9e3c8bec784d22/3lay-concrete.png" data-mid="249263949" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6929ef425a173026c444e0f75b968b050214eb642b8d97c61c9e3c8bec784d22/3lay-concrete.png" /> <img width="2418" height="1270" width_o="2418" height_o="1270" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00f2ab38807bb606c9d9406ae92a8086b798b1e2b25a7f4152183755f10b9d56/4cops-interupt.png" data-mid="249263950" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00f2ab38807bb606c9d9406ae92a8086b798b1e2b25a7f4152183755f10b9d56/4cops-interupt.png" /> <img width="2422" height="1276" width_o="2422" height_o="1276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e12d15206926e23135ebfe85f5d660abebe64c2024f726ea45910885af8504b7/5lay-more-concrete.png" data-mid="249263951" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e12d15206926e23135ebfe85f5d660abebe64c2024f726ea45910885af8504b7/5lay-more-concrete.png" /> <img width="2420" height="1272" width_o="2420" height_o="1272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6677594f78f004ab0203032a1983322c396945cd1c5616b8b033c059b62985c/insert-letters.png" data-mid="249263953" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6677594f78f004ab0203032a1983322c396945cd1c5616b8b033c059b62985c/insert-letters.png" /> <img width="2412" height="1272" width_o="2412" height_o="1272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce6cf74950cfd46cd084f28640b63ad2f6cd362a5fbf75462501a00db3d1e5ed/fin.png" data-mid="249263952" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce6cf74950cfd46cd084f28640b63ad2f6cd362a5fbf75462501a00db3d1e5ed/fin.png" /> <img width="1170" height="916" width_o="1170" height_o="916" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e75e1efa590170506b72cfcd0d4edaad88e00ebc1b250e6fe0239355697c867c/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.21.18PM.png" data-mid="249264001" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e75e1efa590170506b72cfcd0d4edaad88e00ebc1b250e6fe0239355697c867c/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.21.18PM.png" />‘Orleans Justice Center‘, New Orleans City Jail <img width="2420" height="1272" width_o="2420" height_o="1272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7204026575fab5e35cea1083145448079f342cf87aba1cb7fd59b3ccad3fde82/3-mix-concrete.png" data-mid="249263955" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7204026575fab5e35cea1083145448079f342cf87aba1cb7fd59b3ccad3fde82/3-mix-concrete.png" /> <img width="2410" height="1272" width_o="2410" height_o="1272" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/90397049bc32e2cbd557540e9fdcec69bd4821fd09e62454ce3bc8d48845276d/1-reading.png" data-mid="249263954" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/90397049bc32e2cbd557540e9fdcec69bd4821fd09e62454ce3bc8d48845276d/1-reading.png" /> <img width="2752" height="1226" width_o="2752" height_o="1226" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1ecba6f8f46304d73454a269b1e0b923d670752b338b6acfdef354ad9797502/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.15.12PM.png" data-mid="249263984" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1ecba6f8f46304d73454a269b1e0b923d670752b338b6acfdef354ad9797502/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.15.12PM.png" /> <img width="1064" height="850" width_o="1064" height_o="850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b63c3fdd4a9937e41f1b715d7f1f37973f23239f3b8bbb58a5889e6afa429e91/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.34.43PM.png" data-mid="249264042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b63c3fdd4a9937e41f1b715d7f1f37973f23239f3b8bbb58a5889e6afa429e91/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.34.43PM.png" />Grief Gardens at Solitary Gardens, New Orleans &lt;&nbsp;Home | &nbsp;Next Project &gt; https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Morir-es-Vivir-Vivir-es-Morir Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:38:00 +0000 Marta Rodriguez Maleck https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Morir-es-Vivir-Vivir-es-Morir Morir es Vivir / Vivir es Morir&nbsp; A multi-part project made through recorded conversations with people across New Orleans about grief, loss, mortality, rebirth, healing, and hope. Presented across the New Orleans Museum of Art and the New Orleans Public Library during the Covid-19 pandemic, the work asked: what must die, institutionally, personally, relationally, or belief-wise, and what might thrive in its wake? At NOMA, Morir es Vivir centered on a seating sculpture I built for recorded conversations with participants. Sitting with me inside the museum, people spoke about grief, death, rebirth, and the systems, beliefs, and institutions they felt needed to end. These conversations became a sound and light installation in the Great Hall. At the Main Library, Vivir es Morir became a public companion work: a sculptural listening structure with audio, zine, and space for collective reflection. While the museum presentation was shaped by institutional limits and censorship, the library version held the work in a free, accessible civic space and allowed the censored material to return through three audio channels: the intended work, the words I fought to keep, and the words that were banned completely. Together, the installations formed a cycle of regeneration between museum and library, grief and imagination, death and living. The project later expanded into &lt;&gt; &lt;&gt; (Morir es Vivir), a translucent vellum publication made during the 2022 Paper Machine Residency. Combining drawings, photographs, and collected language from community conversations, the book holds a collective authorship of a period of time during the pandemic, moving through inheritance, housing, labor, fossil fuels, prison, revolution, family, and imagination. <img width="5270" height="3322" width_o="5270" height_o="3322" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59c90eae40e602215a52adeb57f5b37700025ac8137242c0e1dff4ce0ae6e6f2/MoriresVivirConversations_NOMA_2021.jpg" data-mid="249296451" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59c90eae40e602215a52adeb57f5b37700025ac8137242c0e1dff4ce0ae6e6f2/MoriresVivirConversations_NOMA_2021.jpg" />Morir es Vivir, 2021Seating sculpture, 1-to-1 recorded conversationsContemporary Art Gallery, New Orleans Museum of Art <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0de35a9404e43372c43694cc7b5df3f6fc5dbd8fbbe117cd03e3ebe53d220145/MoriresVivir01_NOMA_2021small.jpg" data-mid="249296513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0de35a9404e43372c43694cc7b5df3f6fc5dbd8fbbe117cd03e3ebe53d220145/MoriresVivir01_NOMA_2021small.jpg" />Morir es Vivir, 2021 sound and light installationGreat Hall, New Orleans Museum of Art <img width="1383" height="1387" width_o="1383" height_o="1387" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ff533c08819c8142b99d4f6b6431ce4462a3896d7e42c4c2a30f09d41340c9f/Vivir-es-Morir-1.jpeg" data-mid="249296444" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ff533c08819c8142b99d4f6b6431ce4462a3896d7e42c4c2a30f09d41340c9f/Vivir-es-Morir-1.jpeg" />Vivir es Morir, 2021Sculptural listening installation, audio New Orleans Public Library <img width="750" height="752" width_o="750" height_o="752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da7832b77411b2a606aef83a3f61ed595ca5356212f7fe9ef2a11e9559c6071d/Vivir-2jpeg.jpeg" data-mid="249296445" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/da7832b77411b2a606aef83a3f61ed595ca5356212f7fe9ef2a11e9559c6071d/Vivir-2jpeg.jpeg" />Vivir es Morir, 2021Sculptural listening installation, audio zineNew Orleans Public Library <img width="1136" height="1308" width_o="1136" height_o="1308" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4083b44927a357545e10e47966a299b98186994ab9f022a27767618e80742a8/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.21.38PM.png" data-mid="249296425" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4083b44927a357545e10e47966a299b98186994ab9f022a27767618e80742a8/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.21.38PM.png" />&lt;&gt; &lt;&gt; (Morir es Vivir), 2022Publication on translucent vellumAntenna Paper Machine Residency <img width="1202" height="1282" width_o="1202" height_o="1282" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/203a9c0c84eacbbc19bbf03621ec28964156bed1b9d566d4bb2686feddcd51e9/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.21.52PM.png" data-mid="249296439" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/203a9c0c84eacbbc19bbf03621ec28964156bed1b9d566d4bb2686feddcd51e9/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.21.52PM.png" /> <img width="834" height="818" width_o="834" height_o="818" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9360491c291744abbb9ddd5e754526cedb329ff318c40ad7f77de6fca906ee32/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.20.51PM.png" data-mid="249296443" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/834/i/9360491c291744abbb9ddd5e754526cedb329ff318c40ad7f77de6fca906ee32/Screenshot-2026-06-08-at-11.20.51PM.png" />&lt; Home | &nbsp;Next Project &gt; https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Radio-Documentary-Public-media Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:38:12 +0000 Marta Rodriguez Maleck https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Radio-Documentary-Public-media Radio, Documentary, Public Media As an extension of my sculptural and performance practice, I have worked in documentary, radio, and public media to hold first-person stories, oral histories, and conversations with artists, workers, organizers, and residents of New Orleans. These works use listening as a material, carrying voices into shared spaces through film, radio broadcast, posters, monitors, and printed matter. Across documentary shorts, radio interviews, and public screenings, this work traces how people move through crisis, labor, union organizing, grief, cultural inheritance, and collective survival. <img width="1958" height="1466" width_o="1958" height_o="1466" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/622a5d26ef0a3563ad8f819f16a188edb1e56a3fcfd03fc49d902611602baae5/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-6.32.18PM.png" data-mid="249298387" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/622a5d26ef0a3563ad8f819f16a188edb1e56a3fcfd03fc49d902611602baae5/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-6.32.18PM.png" />Nonstop, 2020Public screening installation with silkscreen poster and monitor at New Orleans Duncan Plaza bus stop <img width="1892" height="1420" width_o="1892" height_o="1420" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ba964828e71f986b7166948e04a8167d33673478f463d6c8e8ee6e9ff292253/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-6.32.42PM.png" data-mid="249298386" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ba964828e71f986b7166948e04a8167d33673478f463d6c8e8ee6e9ff292253/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-6.32.42PM.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c03f8d5385a88c03269437721759b7016666083218fd70d7170cd784d792d65/NONSTOP_4.jpg" data-mid="249298380" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c03f8d5385a88c03269437721759b7016666083218fd70d7170cd784d792d65/NONSTOP_4.jpg" />▷ Nonstop, 2020 | Directed by marta rodriguez maleck and Zac Manuel <img width="2880" height="1610" width_o="2880" height_o="1610" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5712e4fc3f84a82e9d874b2bcda7c805f5bb58a410367779584a239c931922c/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-6.43.44PM.png" data-mid="249298414" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5712e4fc3f84a82e9d874b2bcda7c805f5bb58a410367779584a239c931922c/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-6.43.44PM.png" />▷ The Only Thing Left To Do Is Start Teaser, 2020 | Directed by marta rodriguez maleck and Zac Manuel <img width="2806" height="1586" width_o="2806" height_o="1586" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bfeeda6173a96ca6a6470198ad504489938e954336b65b4ed16d997a1aa944f6/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-2.10.08AM.png" data-mid="249300599" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bfeeda6173a96ca6a6470198ad504489938e954336b65b4ed16d997a1aa944f6/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-2.10.08AM.png" /> &nbsp; <img width="2876" height="1300" width_o="2876" height_o="1300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6cd2b99779ccd41eb0cf862cf849db1bbba910bb0ad9d63d9882d2dd17ed3ec8/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-7.00.18PM.png" data-mid="249298422" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6cd2b99779ccd41eb0cf862cf849db1bbba910bb0ad9d63d9882d2dd17ed3ec8/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-7.00.18PM.png" />▷ On Strike for Everyone, 2020 | Directed by marta rodriguez maleck <img width="2880" height="1306" width_o="2880" height_o="1306" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7787ada25fd2a3cc8f7f9a7a48a486287f0111b87153d8e4d62957eeac9037e/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-2.25.20AM.png" data-mid="249301638" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7787ada25fd2a3cc8f7f9a7a48a486287f0111b87153d8e4d62957eeac9037e/Screenshot-2026-06-10-at-2.25.20AM.png" /> <img width="1576" height="1542" width_o="1576" height_o="1542" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a07c1ea57f8ec18fbf0a99597e75f9c91f3cdce4e364acbee51dd4793a1ed9a/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-7.17.01PM.png" data-mid="249298501" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a07c1ea57f8ec18fbf0a99597e75f9c91f3cdce4e364acbee51dd4793a1ed9a/Screenshot-2026-06-09-at-7.17.01PM.png" />Reports from New Orleans, Montez Press Radio, 2020–2024A radio series hosted and produced by marta rodriguez maleck featuring conversations with New Orleans artists, culture workers, organizers, and storytellers. Episodes move through spirituality, archives, Mardi Gras, public memory, Latine identity in the South, and artistic responses to community need. ▷ Reports from New Orleans: Mirrors, Latine Visual Artists in the SouthGuests: Angel Perdomo, Karla Rosas, Sydney Calderon ▷ The Spiritual &amp; The AncestralGuests: Deja Jones, Xavier Juarez, Cristina Molina, Theodora Eliezer ▷ Artists Respond to Community Needs During COVID Crisis Guests: free feral, Marion Hill, Fernando Lopez, Zibby Jahns, Meg Turner ▷ Dapper Bruce Lafitte, Life and LessonsGuest: Dapper Bruce Lafitte ▷ Uncovering Truths Guests: Jeffery Darensbourg, Nic Brierre Aziz, Gabrielle Garcia Steib ▷ The Art of Mardi Gras and Communal Celebration Guests: Autumn Kassel, Lucia Honey, Ashley &amp; Cherie Teamer, Nicola Piccola ▷ Reports from New Orleans: Words, original readings by Southern writers Guests: Lucia Honey, Emma Campbell, Christian Lee &lt; Home https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Archive-1 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:41:45 +0000 Marta Rodriguez Maleck https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/Archive-1 https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/About Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:01:36 +0000 Marta Rodriguez Maleck https://martarodriguezmaleck.com/About rodriguez maleck works in metal, found material, wood, seed, cloth, and language. They build objects that range from sigils, talismans and markers, to quilts conceived as speculative tools for a future built on hope, desire, and the work of keeping their community close. Beneath all of it runs an archive... years of interviews with organizers, ecologists, laborers, and neighbors that surface, in fragments, inside the released work. 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 &amp; 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.cv available upon request