Laura Aguilar & Delilah Montoya, Natural Forces: Against Type

Magnan Emrich Contemporary is please to present two Latin photographers Laura Aguilar and Delilah Montoya in Natural Forces: Against Type, curated by Kóan Jeff Baysa and in conjunction with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angles Projects and Patricia Correia Gallery. The exhibition will be on view from January 3 – February 9, 2008.

Stereotyping consists of preconceived images, expected behaviors, and assumptions about a certain group, with the caricaturization of specific attributes. These defining (mis)perceptions are amplified and perpetuated in mass media and popular culture, thus altering the expectation of and treatment by others. A typical example in Latino culture is the bandido, and within that culture, the malcriada, a subject explored by Delilah Montoya through her images of female Mexican boxers. The Latina lesbian body is a typecast subject challenged by the self-portraiture and landscape compositions of Laura Aguilar. The contrasting mixture of potent photographs by women representing women from two markedly different viewpoints within their shared culture creates a forceful visual interplay that provokes new dialogues about stereotype.”*

*From: www.artcal.net
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