This series of drawings reproduces designs of patterned shirts from the 70s.This decade was a golden age for ballads in Latin America (José José, Camilo Sesto, Roberto Carlos, among others), and Rodrigo fixes her gaze on the projection that they made of a masculine ideal both in their behavior and through the lyrics of their songs. On the contrary, the prints that she draws, so characteristic of the seventies garments and popularized to a great extent by these singers, work as a break when feminizing the image of these figures.
By replicating the geometric layout, Fátima Rodrigo converts the textile patterns into abstract drawings that evoke the constructivist visual vocabulary but diluted and assimilated within daily life. At times the drawings are reminiscent of strokes of the Russian pictorial avant-garde but also bring to mind everyday materials such as tapestries or renderings. How has a European visual language been imported into Latin American daily life? Rodrigo's work proposes a series of cultural translations by turning the industrially produced into painstaking manual labor, using the various motifs as a provocation.
