Municipal Painting

Over the past decade our work has centered on a critical examination of a painting phenomenon that occurs in Puerto Rico, by which the municipalities adorn public infrastructure with bands of color: seen by us as a territorial painting manifestation that emerges from the public sector with associations to geometric abstraction. 

What started as a photographic record back in 2009, has since become an extensive painting practice based on the reproduction of paint from color samples gathered throughout the country. Through road trips and processes of encounter, documention, sampling and reproduction, the research on municipal painting (as we’ve come refer to it) creates a triangular bridge between landscape, painting and abstraction, while summoning contemporary notions of Caribbean identity and post-colonial tropicality.  

Our research on municipal painting materializes as photography (documentation), paintings,  territorial “insertions”, painted objects, installations and digital collage.