While in residence, Fátima Rodrigo engaged in constructive conversations about the reception of Latin American aesthetics within a global context with fellow artists, students, curators, and other cultural workers in the Munich art scene. As part of her Open Studio event, she presented a new series of textile works and drawings created during the residency.

Rodrigo was also able to experiment with the production of new metal works—a material she hadn’t worked with before—through her membership at Makerspace and a site visit to the construction company PERI. The new works, as well as a piece she collaborated on with fellow resident Emilia de las Carreras, were presented in the pair’s exhibition Ways of Knowing Otherwise at SOSOSO Space.

Rodrigo also presented an artist talk at the Academy of Fine Arts during her residency, entitled Affective Lineages: Dreams, Desires, and Other Histories, discussing how her work uses pop culture, television history, and inexpensive materials to critique the patriarchal and colonial legacies of modernism in Latin America.

This residency was developed in collaboration with the Department of Art and Culture of the city of Munich, in partnership with Era Foundation. Makerspace awarded a grant to the resident to work at their workshops.