Solo exhibition at Ivester Contemporary in Austin, Texas, October 22 - November 26, 2022
Water water everywhere is a multimedia interrogation of both the textures of embarrassment and the politics of joy, focusing on different Latinx figures in moments of internet virality. The exhibition features video, large-scale fabric prints, self-portraiture, and new object sculptures that reorient wholesome and abject brown representational figures who have had their “15 minutes of fame” online. Inspired by viral video subjects like Edgar from the viral “fail” video La Caida de Edgar (2006), the gradual whitening of Selena Quintanilla, first-day-of-school child interviewees like “excited 4th grader” Kevin (2016) and crying Andrew Macias (“Are you going to miss your mom?”) (2015), the show intimates that repetition isn’t just about the performance of sameness. Where these uncanny brown figures mark the far-stretched corners of the internet like stars in a twisted sky, the artist asks what web they've built for those in their likeness. How do we perform the brown body online? Can we defamiliarize these characters among a pop culture imaginary to map a way home?
Eve (2022), Faux silk fabric hanging, 108 x 53 in
Latinos on TV (2022), Fabric Sculpture
Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted (2022), Video (0:42)
U-tube (2022), Digital Print and Curtain, 24 x 36 in