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'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.'
- Albert Camus
Julitte Leone is a French photographer living in New Orleans where she documents her vivid community of costumers, drag queens, performers, activists, and multifaceted creatives.To her, the contributions of these visionaries are especially vital in this political era that is clinging to limited, binary narratives, at great cost to our humanity and sense of empathy. Leone’s work focuses on creating an alternative archive of our time, characterized by radical self-expression in defiance of a society trying to flatten our identities.
-Julitte Leone
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As a photographer, I will not say that I did not choose these photographs to look this way. Photography is about including and excluding from reality. I will say I am drawn to images in which individuals may challenge the general notion of what is expected of them. Photographing in intimate settings and in the same terrain over time has allowed me to do so, through the act of being present and waiting. I am interested in the softness that exists in roughness, and vice versa... the unexpected, which is inherent to this medium.
- Alex del Canto
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As a performer and a photographer, my aim is to create experiences that offer people the chance to question their truth and explore new possibilities.
My work aims to draw the viewer away from the comfortable and the familiar to question who they really are. Demonstrating uninhibited freedom plants a seed in the observer: that we all have the right to our freedom and should use it. Inspired by observations of neon-lit bars, drag performances, and everyday city life, my practice captures the raw humanity that these environments encourage. -Jason Derek North |
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La línea de investigación que marca mi trabajo plantea cuestiones que giran en torno a la identidad y al ser social, la idea de territorio, lo esencial y el artificio desarrollados en el discurso de lo real, un modelo artístico que recoge y hace suyas estrategias que vienen de otros ámbitos de pensamiento y acción, llevándolas al campo de la creación artística.
Supuestos superficiales que afectan a la imagen corporal constatando los límites imprecisos entre originalidad y copia dejando aflorar la tendencia a la uniformidad de la cultura que anula cualquier atisbo de diferencia. En el campo de la fotografía realizo una serie de trabajos de crítica y parodia de la representación de la vida cotidiana contemporánea a través de los medios de masas, y más concretamente a través de las revista de sociedad o revistas del corazón. Apropiándome de estos formatos, planteo problemáticas sociales profundas como la que se vive en los Campos de Refugiados del Sahara Occidental, la discriminación de los afrodescendientes en Cartagena de Indias o la adaptación de la sociedad china al mundo occidental. En estas imágenes Beatriz Wang y Angie He en el mercado Antón Martín de Madrid para la firma de ficción Dulce & Galbana parodiando a la italiana Dolce & Gabbana. -Nuria Carrasco |
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I believe that the art-as everything else in society-is an inherently political space. Therefore I want to create art work to affect positive change in our society. The power of art as a way to concretise abstractions allow to illuminate, reconstruct and reinvent our world. I am an intersectional feminist and it defines the body of my work as an artist. I see feminism as a philosophy which seeks to expand freedom for all people regardless of their ethnicity, gender, age or economical background. As a feminist artist, my work actively challenges representations of gender, sexuality, race and class.
-Katriina Haikala
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-Katriina Haikala
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