Index of signs: Hinges, necks and a double profile, smiling emoji ball and chain, a distorted scan of a batik-dyed sock, the shadow of another neck, a quote from Chichimecatecuhtli...
Index of signs: Hinges, necks and a double profile, smiling emoji ball and chain, a distorted scan of a batik-dyed sock, the shadow of another neck, a quote from Chichimecatecuhtli — an indigenous Mexican that while being interrogated by the Spanish Inquisition during the 16th century, said: ‘Who are these who undo us, and disturb us, and live over us, and we carry them on our shoulders and they subjugate us?’ The textiles are first printed, then cut, assembled, then reprinted, and in some cases reassembled again until they produce a text of sorts that is indivisible from its structural composition. Alongside the canvases, Andrade Tudela has produced a new series of photograms titled ‘Serflex Type’, where plastic handcuffs are used to produce grids, crosses and curves creating a form of ‘typography of violence’. These, as well as new works on paper, function as the punctuation marks of the exhibition.
