
La Reine Ad, p8 from Indigenous Woman
2018
"La Reine Ad, p8" from Martine Gutierrez's landmark 2018 series "Indigenous Woman" presents a commanding image drawn from the artist's self-produced, self-directed, and self-styled fabrication of a fashion magazine. In this work, Gutierrez assumes complete creative control, performing before the camera as model, art director, stylist, and cultural theorist simultaneously. The result is a richly layered C-print that appropriates the visual language of luxury advertising while subverting it from within, centering a trans Latina body in a context that mainstream commercial imagery has historically rendered invisible or exotic. The cool precision of the photographic surface, mounted on Dibond for exceptional archival stability and visual crispness, only deepens the tension between the glamour of the format and the radical critique embedded in its content. Gutierrez constructed "Indigenous Woman" as a complete magazine object, yet individual pages function as fully resolved works in their own right, and "La Reine Ad, p8" carries that autonomy with confidence. The title's invocation of royalty is deliberate, framing the subject not as object of the gaze but as sovereign presence. Gutierrez draws on her own Guatemalan Maya and Irish heritage, as well as her experience as a trans woman, to interrogate how identity is packaged, sold, and consumed, asking who gets to inhabit the aspirational spaces that advertising constructs. The work belongs to a body of practice that has earned Gutierrez significant critical recognition and institutional attention, making this piece a meaningful acquisition for collectors committed to photography, performance-based practice, and the expanding canon of artists reshaping representation. The work is offered in connection with the Human Rights Campaign Benefit Auction and is held in New York, with shipping arrangements the responsibility of the acquiring party.
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- C-print mounted on Dibond
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