film, video, installations, text, my body, her body, spanglish, and you, the audience.
Autoet(h)nografic-o
History, translation, post colonial theory, Miami, the myth of romance, food, displacement, nature, poetry, Almodovar, film history, memory, inheritance, stories of exile, language, dance.
Ana Mendieta, Carmen Miranda, Felix Gonzalez Torres, Coco Fusco, Richard Tuttle, Carmelita Tropicalia, Glenn Ligon.
There is so much potential in failure.
"Miami is so much more charming than that black Cuban singer lady with the wigs, what was her name?"
My art practice documents an obsessive fascination with both preserving and dismantling notions of the self. Through auto-ethnography, I play with the exploitation and absence of the body, teasing out inherent complexities involved in representing identity in relation to culture, history, sexuality and location.
Born and raised as a second generation Cuban-American in the dense exile community of Miami, Florida, the binary tendencies in my work stem from my own sense of hybridity - constantly performing a dance between languages, affiliations of culture, and the hyper-machismo and uber sexualized feminine ideals prevalent in Latino culture. Once I uprooted myself from this saturated environment through a self-imposed displacement, the "3rd space" in which I perpetually reside revealed itself. From this space, using an interdisciplinary approach, I produce works that take the form of drawings, film, video, performance and installation to address these binaries of identity.
2010
Unruly Subjects, Swell Gallery, San Francisco (December)
...Art of the Everyday– Swell Gallery, San Francisco (May)
Booty Dancing Contest / Collaboration with VuJaDe, Lipo Lounge, San Francisco, California (May)
Home made, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco (May)
2009
Performology and Actionization, Swell Gallery, San Francisco (February)
Collaborate, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, California (September)