Repeating Granadas, solo exhibition
January 20 to April 21, 2024
Cambridge Art Galleries, Queen's Square Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario
Curated and writing by Karly Boileau
"By sending our voices, visuals and visions outward into the world, we alter the walls and make them a framework for new windows and doors.”
- Gloria Anazaldúa
Surrounded by glints of silver and gold, rich browns, patterns, and allegory, Michelle Peraza’s solo exhibition, Repeating Granadas, visualizes the ambiguity and complexity of identity within the LatinX community. Peraza's deliberate choice of colour, materials, imagery, and stylization in her artistic practice prioritizes contemporary LatinX bodies. Inspired by Gloria Anazaldúa’s theoretical framework of mestiza consciousness/the new mestiza, Peraza’s research-based artistic practice critically examines the Western Art History canon and deconstructs the Spanish colonial project of ‘Latin America.’ Through her high-realism portraits, site-specific installations, and non-representation drawings, Peraza engages with themes of transculturation, postcolonialism, feminism, identity, extraction and relocation, image dissemination, gender politics, materiality, representation, and resilience.
Documentation by Toni Hafkenscheid
https://ideaexchange.org/cambridge-art-galleries/exhibition/michelle-peraza-repeating-granadas
