Xandra Ibarra, also know as La Chica Boom, is an interdisciplinary artist who works in photography, performance, videography, and sculpture. Ibarra uses her art and platform to "address abjection and joy and the borders between proper and improper racialized, gendered, and queer subjects." Her work has been featured in many museums, multiple magazines, and in books. One of her art pieces that stood out to me the most was the print, She's on the Rag. Ibarra had been collecting her menstrual emissions and she turned them into abstract shapes that viewers can interpret for themselves. It grabbed my attention because she used her own menstrual emissions to create these images. Also because the topic of menstruation has been considered a taboo topic because of cultural and religious beliefs. On her website, it mentions that Ibarra sold these prints online and offered a psychodynamic analysis through video to talk about what the images invoke in the reader. I watched the video and it was quite interesting to say the least. I was expecting Ibarra to explain her thought process in creating these prints and describing what it should make the viewer feel. Instead, the video is Ibarra’s analysis of a viewer's interpretation of a menstrual Rorschach-inspired print. The video displays images of menstrual emissions that have been turned into abstract shapes and there is a voiceover that is telling a story that is somehow related to the prints. I was a bit confused and did not see any correlation between the prints and the analysis. In the analysis it mentions things such as masturbation, flying, and never being able to fly. So, a question I have for Ibarra is, what is the meaning behind the analysis and how is it that this is the analysis behind She’s on the Rag.
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“About.” Xandra Ibarra, www.xandraibarra.com/about/.
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