The Spanish artist Cristina Lucas (b. Ja\u00e9n, 1973; lives and works in Madrid) works in a wide range of media and genres. Central concerns include the confrontation of subjective and political historiographies and a critical examination of cultural stereotypes. The publication\u2019s point of departure is the multichannel video installation Unending Lightning<\/em>, begun in 2013, in which Lucas undertakes a painstaking study of the history of aerial warfare. The book also showcases works that limn a contemporary perspective on value chains and the capitalization of time and landscape. Moreover, the artist has developed a corpus of critical cartographic models that offer algorithmic, philosophical, poetic, or, in some instances, humorous visualizations of unexpected nexuses. The first German-language publication on Cristina Lucas\u2019s art, it offers a comprehensive survey of her oeuvre to date.<\/p>\n Cristina Lucas studied fine arts at the University of California and the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. She has had residencies in Paris, Amsterdam, and New York. Her work has been exhibited at MUDAM, Luxembourg; the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Chile, and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Kiasma, Helsinki; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mechanisms of Power<\/strong><\/p>\n The Spanish artist Cristina Lucas (b. Ja\u00e9n, 1973; lives and works in Madrid) works in a wide range of media and genres. Central concerns include the confrontation of subjective and political historiographies and a critical examination of cultural stereotypes. The publication\u2019s point of departure is the multichannel video installation Unending Lightning<\/em>, begun in 2013, in which Lucas undertakes a painstaking study of the history of aerial warfare. The book also showcases works that limn a contemporary perspective on value chains and the capitalization of time and landscape. Moreover, the artist has developed a corpus of critical cartographic models that offer algorithmic, philosophical, poetic, or, in some instances, humorous visualizations of unexpected nexuses. The first German-language publication on Cristina Lucas\u2019s art, it offers a comprehensive survey of her oeuvre to date.<\/p>\n Cristina Lucas studied fine arts at the University of California and the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. She has had residencies in Paris, Amsterdam, and New York. Her work has been exhibited at MUDAM, Luxembourg; the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Chile, and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Kiasma, Helsinki; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15264,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2210,2212,2213,2216,2211,2217],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15163","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-film-and-video","8":"product_cat-installation-art","9":"product_cat-painting","10":"product_cat-performance-art","11":"product_cat-photography","12":"product_cat-sculpture","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"taxable","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n