Trend images? Retro-pop video clip? In her work, Martine Gutierrez makes use of visible conventions and stereotypical, well-liked iconography, besides that she plays all of the roles. At the similar time photographer, costume designer, and model, in contrast to the ads of girls’s magazines, the proposed picture of herself is managed, chosen, reappropriated. Thus, she is a part of the lineage traced by Hannah Wilke or Cindy Sherman, of the images committed towards gender and cultural stereotypes conveyed by the media. Her collection ‘Demons’ testifies to this, scripting Aztec, Mayan, and Yoruba costumes so as to higher query their meanings and their cultural reappropriation.
Enjoying with norms to raised divert and criticize them, or overplaying the artifices to raised explore the depths of her id, it is undoubtedly between these two paradoxes that Martine Gutierrez’s art thrives.
Martine Gutierrez
Represented by the RYAN LEE Gallery
Ana Bordenave
L’article MARTINE GUTIERREZ, REAPPROPRIATING ARTIFICE est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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