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source: waterside-contemporary

Daniel Medina has developed a strategy of dissection of both abstract and literal landscapes. He utilizes geometric structures, often suggestive of the formal exercises found in op art or minimalist sculpture, by manipulating a series of interconnected maps and photographs, and subsequently combining them with scenes of abstract icons and urban imagery. These compositions are photographically registered and illustrate the artist’s engagement with the re-appropriation and manipulation of otherwise familiar images.

Through this method, Medina has created a new depth; he has developed three-dimensional structures that intimate an ambiguous game between container and content. In a manner that playfully questions a geometric-abstract tradition of object making, Medina uses ordinary or pedestrian materials to manipulate meaning. (Okwui Enwezor)
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source: wikipedia

Daniel Medina (born 1978) is a Venezuelan artist, selected for the 53rd Biennale Arte in Venice. Daniel Medina’s work addresses the problems associated with living in a post-globalised world. He focuses on how the state, society and self relate to each other by making insertions of maps in other found maps. By intervening in maps Medina creates geometric visualizations of geopolitical collisions, thus subverting notions of sovereignty and nationhood.