Kevin Baltazar (SV)
Kevin Baltazar is a Salvadoran artist who performs a series of events about socio-spatial inequalities, oriented to the body as his "territory", and tracing marginal spaces and deplorable structures from urbanities for the construction of identity; new performative practices; anti-portraiture; and narratives of memory and self-representation. These multidisciplinary explorations find a juncture in violence, superstition, poverty, racism, anonymity and the formations of the modern/colonial world system as factors that, combined, appear to be forces and residues for contemporary creation.
Faceless
2017 / Photography
ARTWORK DESCRIPTION
Faceless depicts humanity as being tied to rolling environments, the realness of objects, and the systems that have been contaminated and deconfigured by the current times. Faceless shows the lack of identity attached to urban matter: it represents a contemporary metaphor about anonymity and impunity by utilizing a special PVC band called "cinta de sombrero", typical from the Mesoamerican region.
Faceless reflects on the people, the urban area, the bodies, the transitions and mutations of identity as a monstrous and abstract individual. The action of covering, tying and creating parasitic interventions is used as a representation of the dominance over the being and as a way of intervening conflicting forms of humanity itself.
2017 / Photography
ARTWORK DESCRIPTION
Faceless depicts humanity as being tied to rolling environments, the realness of objects, and the systems that have been contaminated and deconfigured by the current times. Faceless shows the lack of identity attached to urban matter: it represents a contemporary metaphor about anonymity and impunity by utilizing a special PVC band called "cinta de sombrero", typical from the Mesoamerican region.
Faceless reflects on the people, the urban area, the bodies, the transitions and mutations of identity as a monstrous and abstract individual. The action of covering, tying and creating parasitic interventions is used as a representation of the dominance over the being and as a way of intervening conflicting forms of humanity itself.
Faceless
2017
Photography
