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PLANET GLOBALIZATION

Antonio VEGA MACOTELA

  • Antonio VEGA MACOTELA

    (Born in 1980. Mexico)

        Burning Landscape II, 2019
        Burning Landscape III, 2019
        Burning Landscape VI, 2019

Drawing inspiration from the poem “Incendio” by Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the massive tapestries depict burning landscapes releasing heavy smoke. But what is the smoke signal about? Using a technique called “steganography” commonly employed by hackers and activists to hide secret information, the artist wove the codes of a leaked confidential list denouncing tax evaders into the meshes of the work.

The tapestries then gain a double status. On the one hand, they are a meticulously woven image depicting a landscape. On the other hand, they are an archive, listing the citizens whose capital flows through borders and escapes the tax system put in place in the boundaries of their nation states.

Antonio Vega Macotela, Burning Landscape VI, 2019, steganography on Jacquard, 440×560 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Antonio VEGA MACOTELA, detail of Burning Landscape III, 2019, steganography on Jacquard, 158.4×282 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Labor, Mexico City

Courtesy of the Artist and Labor, Mexico City

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