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Renée Petropoulos — From Canada to Mexico
Renée Petropoulos

From Canada to Mexico

2011

From Canada to Mexico presents a deceptively simple cartographic gesture rendered with the quiet precision characteristic of Renée Petropoulos's broader investigation into systems of knowledge, representation, and political geography. Produced as an archival inkjet print in 2011, the work measures 40.6 × 50.8 cm and carries the artist's signature, lending the edition an intimacy that resists the cool remove often associated with print-based conceptual practice. Petropoulos, whose work consistently interrogates how maps, language, and institutional structures encode power, here focuses attention on the vertical corridor of North America, inviting reflection on borders, movement, and the ideological freight carried by seemingly neutral geographic outlines. The print belongs to the Art Within Reach Editions, a project organized by artist Kim Schoenstadt and produced by Arris Editions in 2011, with all proceeds directed to the Venice Family Clinic Foundation. This context of social purpose is not incidental to the work's meaning. Petropoulos has long engaged with questions of access, community, and the political dimensions of space, and an edition conceived to support accessible healthcare finds a natural alignment with those concerns. Collectors acquire not only a rigorously conceived object from a significant Los Angeles conceptual artist, but also a work whose origins are embedded in civic collaboration and shared purpose.

Medium
Archival inkjet print
Sheet
Signed
Yes

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Renée Petropoulos, From Canada to Mexico , 2011

From Canada to Mexico presents a deceptively simple cartographic gesture rendered with the quiet precision characteristic of Renée Petropoulos's broader investigation into systems of knowledge, representation, and political geography. Produced as an archival inkjet print in 2011, the work measures 40.6 × 50.8 cm and carries the artist's signature, lending the edition an intimacy that resists the cool remove often associated with print-based conceptual practice. Petropoulos, whose work consistently interrogates how maps, language, and institutional structures encode power, here focuses attention on the vertical corridor of North America, inviting reflection on borders, movement, and the ideological freight carried by seemingly neutral geographic outlines. The print belongs to the Art Within Reach Editions, a project organized by artist Kim Schoenstadt and produced by Arris Editions in 2011, with all proceeds directed to the Venice Family Clinic Foundation. This context of social purpose is not incidental to the work's meaning. Petropoulos has long engaged with questions of access, community, and the political dimensions of space, and an edition conceived to support accessible healthcare finds a natural alignment with those concerns. Collectors acquire not only a rigorously conceived object from a significant Los Angeles conceptual artist, but also a work whose origins are embedded in civic collaboration and shared purpose.

Medium
Archival inkjet print
Dimensions
sheet: 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Year
2011
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Venice Family Clinic

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