Gutierrez’s Anti-Icon: Apokolypsis will have its first exhibition of the full suite of the original works at the Polygon Gallery in Vancouver
The American artist Martine Gutierrez has a reputation for deconstructing identities and constructing new ones. A trans woman of Mayan heritage on her father’s side, Gutierrez has specialized in critiquing commercial depictions of gender and indigeneity. Anti-Icon: Apokalypsis is perhaps her most daring project to date.The American artist Martine Gutierrez has a reputation for deconstructing identities and constructing new ones.
Gutierrez spoke to The Globe about conquering the male gaze, the role of nudity in her art and using her body as a medium.It felt very intuitive. I started with Judith the Slayer and I shot her three times because I felt I just wasn’t doing her justice, the spirit of Judith, the ferocity. She’s been interpreted so many times by so many artists that I felt self-conscious.Yeah.
That’s been my question: Is there a way to have the conversation and not posture as the thing, the way people have been taught to see, have been taught that these are validated products. It’s a language that I grew up studying. Growing up, I wasn’t going to galleries. I was looking at magazines and watching reality television. And I didn’t see any representation that I could identify with.I’ve always felt really challenged by my body.
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