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latine, queer, femme | 🥀 🇦🇷 |
interdisciplinary artist & designer
just the art: @conceptualbody

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still looking for meaning in everything

https://aguatierra.substack.com/p/my-girlfriend-tries-to-propagate by @guadaka

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a year ago

‘TO CREATE IS TO DESTROY, INSTALLATION IN 3 ACTS’ (GradEx 2024) - a multimedia living/dying installation that seeks primarily to confront the destruction inherent in creation, and the inescapable futility of the attempt to pretend otherwise.

To become requires a ceasing to be.

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I use my body to skin a beet (also a body). Once complete, I coat her in later after layer of varnish (carefully). I warp her into something strange and beautiful; the sculpture. I sit her atop a pedestal, spotlit. She sits this way between two long sheets of muslin that move with the currents of moving bodies. Projected on each sheet is a video. On one side, a video of my hands as they cut, skin, mutilate. On the other, my hands, now stained, washing themselves over and over and over again. The stain does not leave them.

She sits like this, on display and in dialogue, for the entirety of the exhibition. Shrinking, wrinkling, bleeding. Her decay continues regardless of the varnish, though changed now;
a protest, a truth, a question.

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I have been sitting with this work for months in the hopes of finding the right words to express all it holds for me, but I must admit I have yet to untangle all the webs of meaning I have found in it. Grief, certainly, and in many iterations. Bodies. Sensuality. Ritual. Life. Death. Truth. Destruction. Creation. Transformation. Guilt. Hope too, somehow.

Sometimes I wonder if what I see in it even matters much at all, or if the point is moreso to make, and to ask you instead. by @guadaka

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2 years ago

The Othering Body /

interrogating the existence of the ‘norm’ and the relative process of othering / the ways in which we enact othering onto those around us, as well as ourselves / work done for a course on disability justice, politics, & theory

*thinking of how much I’d love to recreate this as a performance & installation in a gallery space* by @guadaka

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4 years ago

grief and other such spells / the sacredness of dirt and mess / symbols / another scream into the ether of the archive / how lucky I am to be marking three years of time and a wealth of so much else with someone like you by @guadaka

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It’s been two years since we kissed for the first time, under this same moon and surrounded by all the trees. My love, my baker, my gardener, my jester, my dreamer - to love and be loved by you is to believe in tomorrow. I do not know a gift greater than that. I am certain your hands have held mine and mine yours in every life and every universe I have ever traversed. Forgive me for keeping you up at midnight while I write this and rewrite this because no words I conjure are ever enough. I love you. Te amo. by @guadaka

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a year ago

come talk spaces and bodies and the inherent ritual of the mundane 🌹🌹🌹 curated by the great mind of @kaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy

Boxcar Social (Summerhill location)
8pm, Nov 21

🌹🌹🌹🌹 by @guadaka

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2 years ago

Honoured to be exhibiting alongside so many talented artists this week, May 1-5 at OCAD University (100 Mcaul) for Gradex.

You can find TO CREATE IS TO DESTROY in Room 460.

MAY 1, 6-11
MAY 2, 9:30-8
MAY 3, 9:30-8
MAY 4, 10-5
MAY 5, 10-5

I’ll be around most days, so come say hello 🌹🌹 by @guadaka

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2 years ago

DESIRE FROM ALL SIDES

desire as sacred, as innate, as necessary, as catalyst, as ritual, as shared

an experimental work; collected writings on desire, lovingly handwritten and sealed with a kiss of wax, placed in front of an audience with two rules:

01. You may not read a note without breaking its seal.
02. You must return the note from where you took it when you are finished with it. by @guadaka

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3 years ago

CRONE’S NEST, 2023
(in-progress)

A meditation on remembering; the meaning of spaces, homes and how we build them, queer abusive relationships, and the act of choosing to be ‘alone’

🦋first time install for in-class crit, so will be playing with install quite a bit in the future🦋

+ some writing about the process because who am I if I’m not writing about it by @guadaka

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3 years ago

nature in greyscale, textures by @guadaka

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3 years ago

most of all suffering is man-made (lipstick on mirror)

// taken in my backyard on a warm summer day in which children are being kept inside at recess due to unsafe air quality

// grappling with the growing distance between futurist utopias and dystopias, gender, capitalism, the human condition, and much else by @guadaka

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3 years ago

you spat your father’s rage back at me and I swallowed (lipstick on mirror) / sitting with femininity, rage, generational trauma, emotional labour

// challenging myself to unpack shame around using ‘selfies’ and ‘lesser’ technologies (my beloved little outdated iPhone) to make art / take photographs

// beginning to explore ways of expressing my words more tangibly and noticing how that feels

// enjoying just creating 🦋 by @guadaka

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3 years ago