Arlene Mejorado Handling a Mother’s Archive #1, 2023
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El Cuerpo: The (Performing) Body and the Photographic Stage
13/07/2024 - 14/09/2024
LUISOTTI
2525 Michigan Ave., a2
90404 Santa Monica
galleryluisotti.com
Gallery Luisotti presents El Cuerpo: The (Performing) Body and the Photographic Stage, a group show curated by artist Christina Fernandez. Fernandez selected works by seven young Chicano/a conceptual photographers based in the Los Angeles area, whose performative actions are intended to be seen in the form of the still image, informed by a shared Latinx history and lineage. The artists are William Camargo, James Francisco Garcia, Arlene Mejorado, Star Montana, Aydinaneth Ortiz, Juan Manuel Valenzuela, and Christopher Anthony Velasco. The exhibition features work in which the artist is both the maker and the subject. Each artist constructs situations that are performed in front of the camera, and in doing so demonstrates an awareness of conditions of self-presentation. This includes considering oneself within the built environment or surrounding landscape—and, more specifically, in relation to Los Angeles as a place and its complex conditions as a backdrop.
13/07/2024 - 14/09/2024
LUISOTTI
2525 Michigan Ave., a2
90404 Santa Monica
galleryluisotti.com
Gallery Luisotti presents El Cuerpo: The (Performing) Body and the Photographic Stage, a group show curated by artist Christina Fernandez. Fernandez selected works by seven young Chicano/a conceptual photographers based in the Los Angeles area, whose performative actions are intended to be seen in the form of the still image, informed by a shared Latinx history and lineage. The artists are William Camargo, James Francisco Garcia, Arlene Mejorado, Star Montana, Aydinaneth Ortiz, Juan Manuel Valenzuela, and Christopher Anthony Velasco. The exhibition features work in which the artist is both the maker and the subject. Each artist constructs situations that are performed in front of the camera, and in doing so demonstrates an awareness of conditions of self-presentation. This includes considering oneself within the built environment or surrounding landscape—and, more specifically, in relation to Los Angeles as a place and its complex conditions as a backdrop.