Catalina Antonio Granados
Bio: Catalina Antonio Granados was born in Mexico City in 1990. She received her BA in Spanish Literature at UNAM and did her BFA at NYU Steinhardt. Currently she is pursuing her MFA at Columbia University. She is interested in analyzing the performance of colonial tools that the US empire uses over Latin America and its people, especially the control of time and discourse and through politics of translations in asylum applications of Latin Americans in the US, and the narratives imposed on immigrants within the courtrooms. She approaches this by trying to develop tools influenced by radical theories from Latin American pedagogues, Greek theatre, and toys.
She currently lives in Crown Heights.
The notion of an underdeveloped country means that we the citizens of these territories will always live in the past, therefore migrating to a developed empire like the USA we become time travelers that end up getting suspended when crossing the border in the different time ripples created by the empire.
Rocks as immigrants live in the same space as the citizens of the neoliberal empire but always remain in completely different timelines.
Thesis Exhibition
L to R: Calibán (21" x 16" x 10", Polycarbonate suitcase, carved Malachi, 2020); All kinds of alien words (26" x 20" x 11", Polycarbonate suitcase, fossil, jade, carved volcanic stone, clamp lights, 2021); Rich in Time (detail), (46" x 30" x 4", Iron and various rocks, 2020); Rich in Time (46" x 30" x 4", Iron and various rocks, 2020)
