Amy Rondahl’s work is rooted in an interest in how the body is regulated through cultural and social boundaries. Focusing on spaces that function as heterotopias, where these distinctions are temporarily blurred, she investigates the conditions that make such spaces possible. Dirt becomes a central element in her work, marking a refusal or inability to conform to societal expectations of cleanliness and order. As such, dirt emerges as a political aesthetic that shapes these alternative spaces.
Photographs of these spaces are translated into painting. This process involves not only attention to capturing figures and forms, but also an emphasis on texture. In Rondahl’s works, unconventional painting materials are used to capture and amplify the sensations of dirt.
