Xavier Robles de Medina (Suriname) is one of the artists in the group show Fictions and Constructions in:
CATINCA TABACARU GALLERY New York
Fictions and Constructions
May 15 – June 21, 2015
Break and Barge, 2014.
About:
XAVIER ROBLES DE MEDINA (1990) is a Surinamese artist working in painting and sculpture. His sensibilities are deeply rooted in an observational drawing practice as well as an objective dissection of the painting as a three-dimensional object. He questions social and artistic categorizations, in search for a truth regarding his identity as it relates to the painting tradition. His distinctions during his BFA include First Place for Black and White Drawing, as well as the Canson Award at the 2010 Foundations Honors Show. His work has been published on the cover of Strathmore canvas pads, the cover of the Savannah College of Art and Design graduate catalog, and reviewed in both Sranan Art Xposed vol. 5 and the Savannah Morning News.
Counter, 2014.
His studio practice in Amsterdam allows Robles to be at once close to and removed from his native Dutch heritage. He is currently studying the visual cues and contextual idiosyncrasies within the photographs and documentary films of Surinam’s past and present history. Specifically the construction of the Surinamese Brokopondo Reservoir in 1963 has become the focus of such a search: a structure whose aftermath was an artificial flooding of villages which drove thousands from their ancestral grounds – cultural consequences overlooked in favor of economic development. The complexity of this event, combined with its social and political ramifications mirrors his experience (text gallery).
