Mère, je suis gay (2022-2023)

Decolonizing Imaginaries is the title of Alvaro's visual research in Visual Arts, as part of masters degree completed in 2023.

This project is a personal interpretation of the coming out moment. In this visual research, the original "Dîner colonial" watercolour created by french painter Jean-Baptiste Débret (1835) was highjacked to become a canvas to a new artistic message. In this composition, a common bourgeois intimacy moment is transformed in a new disruptive reality where the artist's image is central. In this version, the servants from the original image where replaced by a hybrid feminine body with the artists' face on it, with the intention to create a new empowering narrative.

2022

Mère, je suis gay (2 x 72 x 56)

Spray paint and acrylic on coloured work paper

2022

Mère, je suis gay (72 x 56) installation view

Spray paint and acrylic on coloured work paper

2022

Mère, je suis gay (72 x 56) installation view

Spray paint and acrylic on coloured work paper

2022

Mère, je suis gay (72 x 56) detail view

Spray paint and acrylic on coloured work paper

2022

Mère, je suis gay (72 x 56) detail view

Spray paint and acrylic on coloured work paper

2022

Mère, je suis gay (72 x 56) detail view

Spray paint and acrylic on coloured work paper

2022

Mère, je suis gay (72 x 56) detail view

Spray paint and acrylic on coloured work paper

2022

Mère, je suis gay (72 x 56) detail view

Spray paint and acrylic on coloured work paper

2022

Mère, je suis gay (72 x 56). Work in progress.

Spray paint and acrylic on coloured work paper

2022

Mère, je suis gay (72 x 56). Work in progress.

Spray paint and acrylic on coloured work paper

2022

Mère, je suis gay (72 x 56). Work in progress.

Spray paint and acrylic on coloured work paper

2022

Mère, je suis gay (72 x 56). Work in progress.

Spray paint and acrylic on coloured work paper

Dîner colonial. In Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil (1835), de Jean-Baptiste Débret.

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