Fall arts preview 2022: For Marisol Rendà³n, home is essential to her art
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- 12 Sep 2022
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One of Marisol Rendón’s first series of artworks was a collection of nests she made out of human hair. The daughter of a teacher and a hairdresser in Manizales, Colombia, Rendón used some of her mother’s clients’ clippings to fashion bizarre cultural pieces that, in some ways, set the template for her future.
“I think that was one of my most sincere approaches to things,” Rendón recalls. “My mom had the hairdressing salon in the back of the house. I was making nests, entire installations, I was making paper out of hair, all kinds of different things.”
Nearly 30 years later, Rendón’s approach remains similar to those initial forays in hair sculpture. That’s not to imply that she deals in found materials to create her majestical installation and sculptural work. Rather, she specializes in threading the line between conceptual, installation and interventionist art, never limiting herself in what kinds of mediums she uses or the materials she needs to make it. She thinks big, both literally and philosophically, and says she has a “love-hate relationship” with artists who work in one medium.
“I respect it because they’re devoting their whole life to it, but I hate it because, well, ‘why?’ I think it’s because I’m so hyperactive and I get bored,” Rendón says. Read More...
