Samantha Mendoza | All That’s Forgotten

The fate of most things is doomed to be forgotten. Cherished items from youth, the voice of a loved one, even the morals and promises of a previous version of yourself. Always meditating on human fallibility, these works serve as narrative introspections that are influenced by the mystery, tragedy, and bliss of ambiguous memory.

Working primarily with narrative, Samantha Mendoza’s work is imbued with a fusion of personal and universal symbolism to weave the intimacy of self-inquiry with patterns of collective thought and experience. Her investigations flirt with ideas of gender, specifically interpretations of ‘Woman’ and femininity, in conjunction with mental health and human fallibility. Elements appropriated from various time periods, mythologies, rituals, and atmospheres blend to fabricate settings and situations that exist somewhere in the gap between the familiar and the mystical.

These works are executed through various printmaking methods with an emphasis on mark-making and drawing. The intensity of labor serves as both a means of catharsis as well as indulgence, pushing the intricacy to satisfy the artist’s hunger for ornamentation and detail.

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