Mondongo

 
Materials list from previous works by Argentinean artist collective, MONDONGO: fake pearls, matches, studs on leather, jawbreakers, beads, colored mirrors, thread, wax, Oreo cookies, biscuits, Ritz crackers, hair, feathers, resin, and meat. With their diverse medium, Mondongo creates visually flirtatious and intellectually intense imagery. Their subject matter is rampant—pornographic pictures downloaded from the Internet and recreated with cookies and crackers, female nudes with taxidermic cat heads, a Plasticine Little Red Riding Hood, and a meat series inspired by Rembrandt’s “A Woman Bathing in a Stream.”
 
Mondongo is the Spanish word for tripe and it’s an appropriate name for Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha, and Agustina Picasso. These self-proclaimed witches are a cultural stomach, consuming, digesting, and spitting out their twisted and stimulating worldview.
 
Selected by curator Jody Quon, as part of her festival exhibition, “I don’t really know what kind of girl I am”, for the New York Photo Festival, Mondongo is building a life-size doll house that will house light-box portraits of two little girls’ faces that are a collage of Plasticine breasts, penises, and sperm.  “All of which,” Quon says, “are things they will encounter in the years to come.”

—Tami Mnoian
 

Installation of doll house