Fátima Rodrigo is a visual artist based in Lima, whose practice explores the representation of modernity and gender identity, especially in Latin America. Drawing from popular celebrations and the visual language of show business—such as glitter, sequins, beads, and ornamental excess—Rodrigo has developed a vocabulary that challenges the power regimes naturalized by art history. In Rodrigo’s installations and textile works, these materials, often dismissed as decorative, function as critical tools that expose ideological hierarchies. Her practice investigates the transnational circulation of modernism and how Latin American popular culture appropriated, transformed, and re-signified European avant-garde languages. Her recent research foregrounds the role of women and queer performers in the circulation of avant-garde aesthetics through popular media, positioning popular culture as an archive of collective desire and resistance.

Rodrigo was selected as one of Salta art’s 2026 artists-in-residence at AIR-M Ebenböckhaus in Munich.