Alejandra García, visual artist, presents her Fulbright-Harriet Hale Woolley show Tócame. This exhibition explores the complexity of growing up in a foreign country while being Mexican-American. Her paintings express feelings and experiences that intertwine, overlap or even oppose each other, and that have shaped the artist she is today.
“In this selection of work entitled Tócame., acrylic paintings and drawings rendered on brown paper illuminate the feelings of desired and forced solitude that I have experienced during my time away from family and the familiar throughout my life. The series centers a recurring character named Diosa. Often flanked by nearly identical versions of herself or semi-human figures, Diosa appears stoic and at times, numb. Through this character, I seek to represent the complexities of being a Mexican-American woman growing up in the United States and abroad. I hope to capture the feelings of confusion and alienation that often accompany belonging to a historically marginalized community that has a complicated relationship with migration — rarely ever feeling full belonging in one place. My work ponders themes such as intergenerational trauma, gender and sexuality, mental health, and the desire for validation and belonging. Diosa’s elongated, skeletal body which is presented as nude or semi-nude — partially visible through transparent fabrics — evokes the discomfort between being constantly objectified and perceived, and actively attempting to gain control over one’s body.”
The opening on April 6 is part of Art-Hop-Polis, art hopping at the Cité Internationale on the first Wednesday of the month. The program of exhibitions will be available on CitéScope soon.
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Opening
Wednesday, April 6, 7-8:30pm
www.my.weezevent.com/tocame
www.fondationdesetatsunis.org/tocame/
