

Body En Thrall, Blonde Shoe
2020
Martine Gutierrez's "Body En Thrall, Blonde Shoe" (2020) presents a commanding photographic tableau in which the artist performs as both subject and architect of desire, staging an image that simultaneously inhabits and interrogates the visual language of high fashion. Printed as a C-print mounted on Dibond and measuring a substantial 121.9 × 81.3 cm, the work carries the physical authority of editorial photography while operating as something far more layered, a meditation on identity, constructed femininity, and the seductive power of surfaces. Gutierrez deploys her own body as the primary medium, engaging with longstanding traditions of self-portraiture and performance to produce images that are at once beautifully crafted and critically incisive. This work belongs to Gutierrez's broader practice of building immersive, self-produced visual worlds in which she controls every element of production, from styling and set design to photography and retouching. That total authorship is essential to the meaning of the work. By occupying all roles simultaneously, Gutierrez reclaims the terms of representation for a trans Latina woman in a cultural landscape that has historically denied such agency. The result is an image of genuine glamour that refuses to be merely decorative, turning the aesthetics of the fashion spread into a vehicle for asserting selfhood on one's own terms. Available as a signed edition of eight through RYAN LEE, "Body En Thrall, Blonde Shoe" represents a significant opportunity to acquire a work by one of the most intellectually rigorous and visually compelling artists working in photography today. Gutierrez's practice has attracted sustained institutional attention, and works from her major self-published series are already regarded as important documents of contemporary identity and image-making.
- Medium
- C-print mounted on Dibond
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · RYAN LEE
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