Queer Rage
2018
This striking self-portrait by Martine Gutierrez, titled 'Queer Rage,' is part of her acclaimed 'Indigenous Woman' series. The artist transforms into a powerful persona, adorned with elaborate makeup, a golden nose ring, vibrant yellow eyes, and a dramatic headpiece featuring leaves and feathers, all set against a rich red background. The piece explores complex themes of identity, gender, and cultural representation through a highly stylized and theatrical lens.
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- Archival pigment print
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Zanele Muholi
South African · b. 1972
Muholi creates bold theatrical self-portraits that use elaborate adornment, intense direct gazes, and stark backdrops to assert queer Black identity, closely mirroring Gutierrez's use of costuming and self-transformation as political and personal resistance.
Narcissister
American · b. 1970
Narcissister employs highly stylized self-portraiture with dramatic masks, costumes, and theatrical performance to explore gender, race, and identity, sharing Gutierrez's strategy of using elaborate visual transformation as a vehicle for questioning cultural representation.
Tseng Kwong Chi
Canadian · b. 1950
Tseng Kwong Chi used costumed self-portraiture to provocatively interrogate cultural identity and representation, deploying a theatrical persona as a critical lens on ethnicity and belonging in ways that parallel Gutierrez's layered performative self-imaging.
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