Alex Velázquez Brightbill: ETHNIC BODIES

Slemmons Gallery

Alex Velázquez Brightbill’s ETHNIC BODIES collage series explores ideas of beauty, colonialism, and sexual identity. Alex’s starting point is an observation by the Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu that “the female carries the marks, language, and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is constantly placed on the female body.” So, in this series the female figures show their inner thoughts portrayed in their physical world – a grotesque woman, a cat lady, sexual innuendos, playful absurd fetishes, the physical scarring of a culture, fashion and animalistic language combined with humor. Alex explores the conflicting perceptions of Latinx women based on assumptions from history and from current affairs.

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Photo credit: Alex Velázquez Brightbill