MIKA ROTTENBERG

SNEEZE presents four works (Sneeze, NoNoseKnows, Cosmic Generator, and Spaghetti Blockchain) by Mika Rottenberg, whose practice focuses on material surfaces and transformations that are simultaneously stimulating and disturbing, bizarre and banal, beautiful and lethal, productive and also exploitative. More specifically, the artist seeks out locales and locations across the globe to cast a spotlight on specific systems of production, such as a pearl factory in the Mainland, or a Calexico border town—yet she does so in surreal ways. Referencing the traditions of both cinema and sculpture, the artist documents aspects of reality but also invents footage from studio-built sets in order to create elaborate and subversive visual narratives. By weaving fact and fiction together, she highlights the inherent beauty and absurdity of our contemporary existence, shedding light on connections, disconnections, and the complexity of exchange.