A poster with panels of layered imagery, bisected just left of center. At left is a cropped photo of a woman's nude torso, in grey and yellow-green. At right is a photo of medical apparatus in light grey, on a yellow ground. The image of the grey apparatus extends into the woman's torso. Crossing the border between these two areas are two words, 'IDENTIDAD' in light grey sans serif letters within a white rectangle at top, 'EXCESO' in large, blocky grey letters, stretched across the sheet just below center. 'FIG. 1' in small white letters sits below the 'O' of 'EXCESO'. A stylized motif of a 16th century sailing ship is printed in red over the right half of the sheet, with a few ships extending over the left panel. Overlapping Spanish and English text is printed in grey, red, and black at the middle of yellow panel, with the left margin parallel to the border. Sparse text is printed along the upper right edge.

The image is © Rebeca Méndez. There are 3 other images of this object. See our image rights statement.

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Object Timeline

1992	Work on this object began.
1994	We photographed this object.
1996	We acquired this object.
2013	We photographed this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
2018	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Poster, Identidad/Exceso (Identity/Excess)

This is a Poster. It was designed by Rebeca Méndez and published by Trama Visual. It is dated 1992 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is screenprint on white wove paper . It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Created for the Second International Poster Biennial in Mexico City with the theme, “America Now, 500 Years Later,” I examine how colonialism is experienced in the body—both as the receiver of its numbing iron fist and its capacity to resist and recover from this trauma. I also chose to challenge the celebration of the so-called “conquest” and reduce Columbus’s ships to a decorative wallpaper element in the background.

This object was donated by Rebeca Méndez. It is credited Gift of Rebeca Mendez.

Its dimensions are

60.9 × 90 cm (24 × 35 7/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed in pen and black ink, lower right: Rebeca Mendez

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower right, below image: 20/300

Cite this object as

Poster, Identidad/Exceso (Identity/Excess); Designed by Rebeca Méndez (Mexican and American, b. 1962); Published by Trama Visual; USA; screenprint on white wove paper ; 60.9 × 90 cm (24 × 35 7/16 in.); Gift of Rebeca Mendez; 1996-59-4

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Rebeca Méndez Selects.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2DBaM/
Accession Number 1996-59-4
Object ID 18653947