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Jorge Méndez Blake

<p>Following Jorge Méndez Blake’s practice of ‘language dismantling,’ in which every word of a text is used to create a new work, the artist takes the poet T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ (1922) and translates it into a large-scale composition. The poem’s 3055 words – exploring social upheaval and psychological collapse – are scattered across the wall creating an unruly cacophony that invites the reader to decipher their own meanings. The landscape is defined by the relevance of certain words, creating tension between the visual and the written. Méndez Blake employs a modernist poem as a point of departure, a reflection of the current humanitarian global crisis, international conflicts, inequality, and ecological emergency.</p><p><strong>Jorge Méndez Blake</strong> (born 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico) researches language and poetry, translating writing into spatial compositions. His work explores the history of literature through the intersections and connections between literature, the visual arts, and architecture. Méndez Blake lives and works in Guadalajara.</p>

OMR, Mai 36 Galerie, Travesía Cuatro

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