Anonymous Women – Domestic Disasters

When: September 16 through November 8, 2019

Where: FIU Miami Beach Urban Studios, 420 Lincoln Road

About (By the Artist): This is a personal project about merging woman and home, which has various iterations and has lasted over 20 years. The photographs are life-size installations made in the studio using the figure and household objects as subject matter.

In my ongoing photographic series, “Anonymous Women,” a lone woman is hidden in a draped vignette where she attempts to perform domestic trickery, particularly in the accompanying short videos. As the series continues, the woman becomes part of her excessive domestic trappings and activities, to comment about obsessive collecting, decorating, and our relationship with “things.” A mannequin substitutes for the woman, where camouflage and anonymity reaches its logical conclusion of extreme absurdity, as she perpetually disappears into the artifice and visual overload of colors and patterns in her environment. In the latest iterations of the narrative, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of her home to her fatal end; her objects take over, and the woman is crushed by her own possessions and obsessions. Her home has become a site of tragedy and danger, with scenes of heartbreaking mishaps and horror, inspired by many sources including the game of clue…

With the support of the City of Miami Beach Office of Cultural Affairs and the Miami Beach Mayor and City Commissioners.

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