As I browsed Xandra Ibarra's website, I learned that she is an artist who expresses her art through many forms of media. I think many of her works are not difficult to understand and even many people can get some resonance from them.
I like a lot of her work, one of my favorites is Ashes of Five Feminist of Color Texts, which I don't think is difficult to understand and I appreciate the point of view that this work is trying to convey to the people who see it. The whole sculpture is a funeral for these five texts. Each of the texts has dried flowers placed next to it, which means that the texts are being mourned by someone. The fires that are burning in the hanging photographs are like a cremation of these texts. If someone enters the museum's galleries and sits on the cedar bench of the installation, it is like someone who enters a funeral and begins to mourn the dead.
I share Xandra's view of what she wants to show through this installation. Nowadays, there are many people who, in order to achieve a certain goal or to promote a certain idea, will use sexual interpretations of texts, like the five texts in this installation. Some people even use certain doctrines as a gimmick to perform some "performances". I feel sad and regretful about this phenomenon. I also feel sorry for those texts and ideas that have been misunderstood and exploited. This feeling is similar to the regret and nostalgia that one feels when attending a funeral. I think the funeral for these texts means both that the purity of these texts that were not used and misunderstood when they were first created no longer exists, and that these texts will be relieved and will never experience those regrettable things again. And as spectators of the funeral, the viewers will begin to miss and yearn for a time when ideas and opinions could be expressed in their purest form.
My question is, why did Xandra choose these five texts and not others? What inspired her to create such a work?
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