Joshua Merchan Rodriguez

FranceGalleries & Collectives

Biography

Through his practice, Joshua Merchan Rodriguez pays particular attention to what he calls historical, political and poetic “knots”, and to the manipulation and displacement of living and non-living matter that occurs within them. For Art-o-rama 2026, the artist presents a body of work developed during his residency and exhibition at Ojalá, Paris, in 2025, on the invitation of Violette Morisseau. Focusing on conductive metals such as copper, he examines how the material preserves and connects, alters and contaminates.

Archive records · BUNA vol.3 / 2025

PUNTA Gallery and Spiaggia Libera group presentation, 2025 Individual work details not supplied

Galleries & Collectives

Gallery / Collective: PUNTA Gallery and Spiaggia Libera (FR)
Curator / Team: Curators: Sacha Guedj Cohen (FR), Camille Velluet (FR), Boyana Dzhikova

The works presented in Odyssea: Le chant des sirènes explore the siren as a shifting symbol of mystery, desire, resistance, and transformation. Moving between Mediterranean and Black Sea perspectives, the artists approach the sea as both a real and imagined space—an environment inhabited by mythological beings, political tensions, collective memories, and unresolved fears.