Laura Aguilar

Clothed/Unclothed #28

1994

© 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 × 378 mm
image: 482 × 380 mm
Collection: Lent by the Tate Americas Foundation, courtesy of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee 2021
On long term loan
Reference: L04394

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Aguilar shows us how the camera can be used to imagine different ways of being. Her images specifically counter white, heteronormative, able-bodied images of women that proliferate. As a Chicana photographer and video artist, Aguilar used the camera to explore herself and the intersection of Chicanx, Latinx, immigrant and queer communities in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s.

Gallery label, November 2022

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