JEANNETTE BETANCOURT

Acquired rights, 2018
Photograph on canvas
31.49 x 47.63 inches.
80 x 121 cm.
Picture taken in November 2017 at Las Marias Shopping Center in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. The letter were placed over a glass that survived the impact of the hurricane, while in the back we see the collapse of the structure of the business which was a pharmacy.

Antropocene, 2018
Intervened dart board
15.74 inches Ø x 2.36 inches.
40 cm Ø x 6 cm.
Work that confronts the difficulty of viewing this phenomenon as a whole while activating our participation in the dilemma.

Innocuous © 2018
18 transfers of contaminants (9 with air pollutants from Mexico City, Mexico and 9 with toxic ashes from Peñuelas, Puerto Rico) on Fabriano paper 300 grs.
8.66 x 11.02 inches each.
22 x 28 cm. each.
The patterns observed in both cases, are fragments of streets located at Condesa District in Mexico City and the housing estate at Tallaboa, Peñuelas in Puerto Rico, as they appear on
Google Maps.

Innocuous, 2018
Detail of 4 street patterns, as found in Google Maps.

Biodiversity I, II, III, IV, 2018
Photographic sculptures in Hahnemüle Photo Matt Fibre paper with acrylic base and cover.
6.29 x 7.08 x 7.08 inches each.
16 x 18 x 18 cm. each.

The unnacounted, 2018
925 silver sculpture relief.
12.20 x 8.85 x 1.96 inches.
31 x 22.5 x 5 cm.
Outline of skulls that seek to give visibility to the dead who were not accounted for in the statistics of the September 19, 2017 Mexico City earthquake and hurricane María on September 20, 2017, in Puerto Rico.

A day before, a day after. 2018
Photographs on canvas.
6.88 x 7.63 inche each.
17.5 x 19.4 cm. each.
Photographic chronicle of the earthquake in Mexico on september 19, 2017 and hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico on september 20, 2017.

Remember Marie Antoinette!, 2018.
Installation with credit and debit cards.
Variable measurements.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Economics Nobel Laureate shares in an essay the experience of attending a dinner convened by plutocrats who were concerned by the alarming growth
of inequality and evoke Marie Antoinette. Remember the guillotine! became the motto of that night. In recent years, inequality has increased in Mexico and Puerto Rico, generating more violence and migration.

The moon shines over infamy, 2018
Site intervention with lighting system and knives.
70.86 x 62.99 x 62.99 inches.
180 x 160 x 160 cm.

Honorary Visual Arts Creator. Support System for Creation and Cultural Projects of the Ministry of Culture/ Mexico.

Jeannette Betancourt © 2021. All rights reserved.

Inocous, 2019. Curator: Ana Astor for El Cuadrado Gris.