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Christina Lopez’s (b. 1995) practice is grounded on an obsession with images. This interest not only includes particularities about what can be seen in popular images, but it also encompasses modes of production (the physicality & virtuality of manufacturing culture), as well as technical abstractions. Her work often points back to how it came to be outside of its object-ness. She likes to explore how visual culture impacts us materially, while considering how image superstructure often takes on near-immaterial form. Her work is often presented through different media while utilizing production processes that range from old and “new”. She is interested in the capacity of the exhibition space to present alternative possibilities. Recently, she has been using portraiture as a tool to question the rigidity of representation. She also utilizes popular horror and sci-fi tropes to produce imagery that are simultaneously grotesque and glossy, in an attempt to make connections between myth-making and media superstructure. For her recent solo exhibition Apparitions and the work Sirens, she produced new sound, video, and installation works through gestures of phantasmagoria and staging.