Daniela Medina Poch ■

A Picture with a Latina

A Picture with a Latina
Daniela Medina Poch
Video performance and images
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2016

 

‘A Picture with a Latina’ seeks to question and complicate the term Latina in the context of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in 2016. The performance explores whether self-exoticization could serve as an emancipatory pathway toward self-representation by taking control of the exogenous gaze.

During ‘A Picture with a Latina’, I ask passersby coming in and out of the central transportation station what their associations with the term Latina are, and I offer them, in exchange for money, the opportunity to take a picture with me. Through an informal business , a form of commerce very common in Latin America,  I monetize and reclaim ‘my cultural category.’

Exhibited at FLORA Ars+Natura Open Studios 2018 

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