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2023
Oil on canvas
132 x 106 cm | 52 x 41.7 in.
USD 5,500
Rodríguez-Chaves’ Montaña — a surreal Montana mountain woman portrait — merges collage and oil painting in a study of how images shape perception and collective memory. Known for his layered compositions, the Costa Rican artist reworks archival photographs and digital material to examine the instability of meaning and the ideological weight carried by visual culture.
In Montaña, a fragmented female figure emerges from landscape fragments and portrait details, creating a tension between familiarity and distortion. The result is intimate and disquieting — an image that hovers between recognition and erasure. Through this process, Rodríguez-Chaves reveals how every act of seeing is mediated, shaped by belief, history and desire.
By reframing the familiar through manipulation and reconstruction in this surreal Montana mountain woman portrait, Rodríguez-Chaves reflects on the politics of looking in contemporary art — how images, whether personal or historical, continue to mediate our understanding of the world.
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