A Picture with a Latina
A Picture with a Latina
Video performance and pictures
Screen 50 x 38.95 cm or larger
Pictures A5 (14.8 X 21 x 10cm)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2016
Exhibited at FLORA Ars+Natura Open Studios 2018
A Picture with a Latina attempts to problematize and complexify the term “Latina” in the context of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. A Picture with a Latina investigates whether self-exoticization, as in taking control of the exogenous gaze, could be an emancipatory path towards self-representation.
‘Latina’ is an identity designation for women coming from Latin America generally used by non-Latin Americans. ‘Latina’ is a term that is loaded with various connotations, most of which I do not feel represent me. During A Picture with a Latina I ask an audience of passersby walkers about their associations with the term Latina and offer them to buy a picture with me. Through an informal business, a very common type of commerce in Latin America, I monetize and re-appropriate ‘my cultural category’.



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- embodiedclimateagency.net
- estuary thinking
- Sustaining Softness amidst Thistles and Snakes
- Rapport, Horizontal Encounters
- geolistening shelter
- What do Snails Think About Nuclear Power Plants?
- Atlantic, Mediterranean, Collision, Coalition
- ARDE, homage to reparation processes
- Environmental Matrix
- If You Listen to Nettles, They Won’t Sting You
- Staying with the Wonder
- Das Zentrum von Gestern
- Intersecting Mediterranean(s)
- Cuerpo Colectivo
- The Land of Thunder and Lightning
- Becoming Anti-Monuments
- Aqualiteracies
- Reset (Quimérico)
- Babel Media Art
- Fictions / Facts
- Ciudad Anfibia
- Beyond the Döner
- Artistic Negotiations with a Bank
- 1m² Parque la Independencia
- Papel Soberano
- Unitedstater
- Metaprotesting
- Public Complaint Office
- Wiping Out My National Identity