Since 2019, Livia Corona Benjamin has been conducting a localized research project centered in the agricultural and aquaculture industries found in the northwest area of the Baja California Peninsula. The pieces presented in this exhibition are the outcome of this investigation. For these works, Corona Benjamin uses a variety of residues and waste from these industries, such as shells recovered from clandestine dumps (created by the demand for bivalves and crustaceans from export companies), and the surplus plastic left by the polymer dispensing machinery used in agriculture. In her studio in the city of Ensenada, Corona Benjamin proceeds to crush, fragment, re-articulate, and give new meanings to these discarded industrial materials and natural objects.
Through labor-intensive production processes she gives form to artworks that point to the environmental impact of these food industries, but which also engage other issues of concern to aesthetics and art history — such as craft...practices, modern painting in the West, or the medium of photography. The scale of the pieces exhibited at PROXYCO, from small to mural-size, also synthesizes the dissonance between manual and industrial work. Overall, Corona Benjamin’s project continues her ongoing interest in the kinds of landscape that are at once natural but also economic and cultural, due to human action and intervention.
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