Laura Aguilar

Clothed/Unclothed #24

1991

© The Laura Aguila Trust of 2016

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In Tate Modern

Performer and Participant: Performing Genders, Performing Selves (Room 5)

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Artist: Laura Aguilar 1959 – 2018
Medium: 2 photographs, gelatin silver prints on paper
Dimensions: Image: 485 × 381 mm
image: 490 × 286 mm
Collection: Presented by the Tate Americas Foundation, courtesy of the Laura Aguilar Estate, Los Angeles 2021
On long term loan
Reference: L04389

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Aguilar explained, ‘My work is a collaboration between the sitters and myself... Hopefully the universal elements in the work can be recognised by other individuals’ communities and can initiate the viewer to new experiences about gays, lesbians, and people of color.’ For the artist, the viewer ‘is as vulnerable as the nude person because as they view the images, they are hopefully seeing images of themselves.’

Gallery label, November 2022

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