"Juan Rodriguez Sandoval is a Guatemalan born, Australian interdisciplinary artist, based in Melbourne, Australia.
Rodriguez’s work investigates and documents the ideologies and themes of locality, transnationalism (immigration), metaphysics (amongst other philosophical fields) and environmental/historical preservation. Additionally, his work tends to reflect and create fictional spaces or working on once existing spaces that have now become historically and geographically distant.
Rodriguez’s work is often informed and molded by archaeological, pantological and astronomical methodologies. He works with an array of earthly, found, everyday and recycled materials, and contemporary technologies.
Juan’s current practice is heavily experimental, and through his work, he aims to bring a consensus to further remind the spectator(s) on environmental preservation, as well as, ethical and moral approaches to art-making.
When he’s not making art, Juan plays drums for Post-punk/Noise-rock outfit, ‘The Bad Bad Randys’, reads philosophy, archaeology and astronomy articles, and hangs out with his dog Chewie
All images courtesy of the artist


Nuclear Deforestation: Survival of the Cyatheales, 2019
Intermission Gallery, Gallery one, Monash University
Photo by Juan Rodriguez Sandoval


Nuclear Deforestation: Survival of the Cyatheales, 2019
Intermission Gallery, Gallery one, Monash University
Photo by Juan Rodriguez Sandoval


Nuclear Deforestation: Survival of the Cyatheales, 2019
Intermission Gallery, Gallery one, Monash University
Photo by Juan Rodriguez Sandoval

Bed II,2020
Gallery Two
Blindside, Melbourne
Curated by Jake Adam Treacy and Lucie Mcintosh

00:00 - Introduction
00:39 - Juan Rodriguez Sandoval
02:39 - Unreal City - M. Ward
06:40 - COVID 19 in Australia
19:41 - Art and the Environment
37:27 - Video Art
55:51 - Emerging Platforms Due to COVID 19
63:47 - Party’s Over - Anna Burch
66:26 - Outro
66:49 - Finish
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