Lopez, Josue (Week 6)

Se Corre (2019), Xandra Ibarra

 

I was fascinated by Xandra Ibarra’s work. In particular, I found myself drawn to the Pastie Series This Is The End. As I looked over the oversized pasties I began asking myself if I had ever seen anyone wearing similar-looking pasties in my own life. To be sure, I had seen people wearing pasties before, but I have never seen anyone wearing the kind of pasties that have a “tail” at the tip. Despite never seeing anyone wearing those sorts of pasties, my mind began to imagine the body that would wear this style of pasties. I felt transported to a different time, a different place, a club or cabaret came to mind. I wasn’t so much imagining the body wearing the pasties, but I was imagining the setting and the context under which that body would wear those pasties. There’s something alluring about imagining a different time than the one you inhabit, however, it also forces you to ask yourself why our minds may romanticize a different time and place? The set of pasties titled Se Corre (2019), are almost hypnotic, drawing attention to the very tip of the pasties, while the three blue circles around it force the gaze outward to explore what’s beyond sexuality. My question to Xandra Ibarra is, what experience/idea made you want to explore the “imagined body” through pasties?