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Martine Gutierrez — Demons, Chin 'Demon of Lust,' p93 from Indigenous Woman
Martine Gutierrez — Demons, Chin 'Demon of Lust,' p93 from Indigenous Woman
Martine Gutierrez

Demons, Chin 'Demon of Lust,' p93 from Indigenous Woman

2018

Presented as a C-print with a hand-painted artist frame, this striking work belongs to Gutierrez's landmark 2018 project Indigenous Woman, a self-published artist book in which she conceived, styled, photographed, and performed every role herself. In this particular image, Gutierrez embodies the Chin Demon of Lust, drawing from pre-Columbian and Mesoamerican iconographic traditions to construct a figure that is simultaneously mythological and urgently contemporary. The work sits at the intersection of identity, spirituality, and spectacle, with Gutierrez staging herself against a visual language borrowed from fashion editorial and commercial photography, only to redirect that language toward questions of Indigenous representation, gender fluidity, and self-determination. The hand-painted frame is not incidental to the work but integral to its meaning, extending Gutierrez's authorship into the object itself and collapsing the boundary between image and artifact. This insistence on total creative control, from the body depicted to the surface on which the image is held, reflects the larger conceptual architecture of Indigenous Woman, which was distributed initially in the format of a glossy magazine to subvert mainstream media's historical exclusion and misrepresentation of Indigenous and trans identities. The result is a work that carries both the seductive immediacy of commercial imagery and the weight of cultural reclamation. Available in an edition of eight and signed by the artist, this piece represents a pivotal moment in Gutierrez's practice and in the broader conversation around representation in contemporary photography. Offered through RYAN LEE, it is a rare opportunity to acquire a work from a series that has already entered major institutional collections and secured Gutierrez's position as one of the most compelling voices working at the convergence of conceptual art and lived experience.

Medium
C-print, hand-painted artist frame
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Martine Gutierrez, Demons, Chin 'Demon of Lust,' p93 from Indigenous Woman, 2018

Presented as a C-print with a hand-painted artist frame, this striking work belongs to Gutierrez's landmark 2018 project Indigenous Woman, a self-published artist book in which she conceived, styled, photographed, and performed every role herself. In this particular image, Gutierrez embodies the Chin Demon of Lust, drawing from pre-Columbian and Mesoamerican iconographic traditions to construct a figure that is simultaneously mythological and urgently contemporary. The work sits at the intersection of identity, spirituality, and spectacle, with Gutierrez staging herself against a visual language borrowed from fashion editorial and commercial photography, only to redirect that language toward questions of Indigenous representation, gender fluidity, and self-determination. The hand-painted frame is not incidental to the work but integral to its meaning, extending Gutierrez's authorship into the object itself and collapsing the boundary between image and artifact. This insistence on total creative control, from the body depicted to the surface on which the image is held, reflects the larger conceptual architecture of Indigenous Woman, which was distributed initially in the format of a glossy magazine to subvert mainstream media's historical exclusion and misrepresentation of Indigenous and trans identities. The result is a work that carries both the seductive immediacy of commercial imagery and the weight of cultural reclamation. Available in an edition of eight and signed by the artist, this piece represents a pivotal moment in Gutierrez's practice and in the broader conversation around representation in contemporary photography. Offered through RYAN LEE, it is a rare opportunity to acquire a work from a series that has already entered major institutional collections and secured Gutierrez's position as one of the most compelling voices working at the convergence of conceptual art and lived experience.

Medium
C-print, hand-painted artist frame
Dimensions
overall: 111.8 x 81.3 cm
Year
2018
Edition
of 8
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
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RYAN LEE

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