This series of photographic works developed from a year-long practice of reperformance. During 2018, the artist reworked key actions from artworks that engaged in troubled relationships with Latin American identities. This process supported the articulation and inhabitation of a Latin American diasporic lineage, focusing on choreography as an inherited cultural practice, with a focus on body works exploring distortion and multiplicity.
In the Body Built with Glass series, reperformances of Ana Mendieta’s work developed into explorations of the gaze; the male gaze on the subject’s body and the gaze of the subject-artist—working consciously with the histories of the male-artist gaze—that looks back at the viewer. Iterations of this work also played overtly with gender, with bodies pressed and contorted into alternative configurations in order to recreate gender posturing.
Content warning for slide images: nudity
Body Built with Glass, Gestures #1–#4
Medium
Photography | Giclée print on Hahnemühle Smooth Art paper | 34.5 x 46.15 cm
Images created while in residence at 360 Xochi Quétzal, Chapala, Mexico
