Narrating Identity, (Dis)locating Bodies Opening Reception July 11, 2008

Partipating Artists:
Monica Enriquez-Enriquez, Sonali Gulati, Vanessa Huang, Mujeres y Cultura Subterránea (Ines Morales and Susana Quiroz) and Rebeka Rodriguez

Opening Reception: Friday, July 11th @ 7:30 pm

Exhibition Dates: July 11th - August 8th
Suggested Donation $2

This is the second exhibition of the The10th Annual Queer Latino Arts Festival. Narrating Identity (Dis)locating Bodies, is curated by Monica Enriquez-Enriquez and delves into the concept of diasporic identities through a multimedia installation of photography and video installation. Identity in this case will be looked at through narratives of both Latino and South Asian perspectives illustrating at times an overlap and cultural synthesis.Monica Enriquez-Enriquez’s mixed media community installation, Queering the Margins, creates a visual narrative of Queer Asylees and Queer Asylum Seekers. Through publicly displaying the bodies, voices and sexualities of her participants, Monica seeks to “queer” the margins created by a white, heterosexual, patriotic, and politically enfranchised male. Her video installation is comprised of a series of audio clips from eight participants projected onto three body-sized screens.

Also included in the exhibition are photographs by Rebeka Rodriguez of individuals involved in Monica’s asylum project, a series of video documentaries by Vanessa Huang and Mujeres al Rescate de la Cultura de la Calle (Ines Morales and Susana Quiroz), and films by Sonali Gulati's films, in which the artist pushes the genre of documentary by intermixing fictional narrative in her works to create a stronger presence for an underrepresented population. Her inspiration comes in finding the overlaps and spaces between gender, race, class and sexuality.

Official Website: http://www.galeriadelaraza.org