Artist working with sculpture, installation, migration histories and imagined futures. Her documented projects include steel architectural forms and installations that combine historical research with speculative temporalities.
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Museum installation · Los Angeles, California · 2019
Trinidad: Joy Station: steel structures and communal histories
Cortez records Trinidad: Joy Station at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles from January to May 2019. Its assembled steel structures draw on Buckminster Fuller's designs and Colorado's Drop City experiment. The artist connects their architectural forms and interiors to migration, labor and the survival of Indigenous peoples, giving the work a specific historical and conceptual foundation.
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Steel sculpture and archival video · 2017
Memory Insertion Capsule: sculpture as a viewing device
The artist lists steel and archival video for the 2017 Memory Insertion Capsule. Its domestic interior and viewing aperture bring histories connecting the United States and Central America into a space-capsule form. The project page credits UCR ARTSblock for the text and photographs, and describes Maya architectural references alongside Southern California building motifs.
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