William Cordova : pachacuti pachacuti pachacuti

William Cordova’s work is tied to an urban ecology of obsolescence, disparity, and displacement. Busted cars, trashed tires, discarded shoes, machetes, speakers, and books yellowed with age provide the material support and iconographic program for his drawings, collages, and installations. For the artist, these material choices reference the reality of lived experience, as opposed to the spectacle of culture, mass-produced for constant consumption. The fluency with which Cordova traverses media and remixes cultural signifiers confirms his visual multilinguism, as barbed as it is lived-in. He has exhibited individually at Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany; P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Miami, Artpace San Antonio; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Manitoba, Canada. Group exhibitions include the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; 50th Venice Biennale, Italy; and New Museum, New York.