OPEN RECEPTION : July 8th at 7pm to 9pm
Exhibition Dates : July 8th to July 30th
The Hill Street Country Club welcomes artists Tarrah Aroonsakool and Marcos Rodriguez-Mallard for an experimental collaborative installation.
From July 8th to July 30th the gallery at the Hill Street Country Club will be taken over by two local artists interested in how capitalism and consumer culture impact the natural world and direct interactions with our environment, each other, and ourselves. Bringing forth themes of mental health in relation to the natural world around us, and the broad scope of human experience, and trauma. The final installation will evolve and change with opportunities for the public to visit while in process, please note: this exhibition includes graphic depictions of animals.
Marcos Rodriguez-Mallard (they/them) (on the right) is an undocumented Mexican artist based in San Diego, working in mixed media, photography, and video. Their projected video, Tarrehe in Miquiliztli (Escucha la Muerte, Listen to Death), shows animals that have been killed on local roads. Marcos sees these paved streets as interventions in the landscape driven by religion, necessity and industry. In allowing people to move to and from work and home, streets and cars have disrupted the natural patterns of animals with a certain degree of collateral damage. The artist can be heard speaking a text written by Maurillo Sànchez Flores in Nahuatl and Spanish meditating on death, the visceral reality of it, and the philosophical question of what happens when an animal, person, or culture dies. The piece invites the viewer to consider how they situate themselves in or against the landscape and how willing Western colonialism and capitalism is to sacrifice lives and whole cultures in the name of convenience and profit. Marcos will also exhibit several mixed-media pieces along this same theme.
Tarrah Aroonsakool (she/her) ( on the left) is a San Diego-based artist interested in materials and people deemed “less than” by Western capitalist structures. Her previous works have included depictions of human and animal bodies as consumer objects represented in a range of repurposed materials. Using discarded materials and waste to make art is central to Tarrah’s creative impulse and helps her to look at the world around her differently. She has recently moved deeper into abstract sculptural works and will be experimenting with slowing down and reconnecting to material and craft.
Visitors are invited to schedule viewings as the installation progresses and attend an opening Satuday July 8th 7pm to 9pm. This paired installation is part of Hill Street Country Club’s Artist in Practice which invites artists to use the gallery as an extension of their own studio and experiment within an exhibition opportunity.
Editor: Akiko Surai