Opening Reception: October 12, 2023
Artist Talk: October 12 , 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
In conjunction with the SURBiennial, Tijuana born, Mexico City-based performance artist and rapper MUXXXE presents a captivating multi sensory exhibition that includes photography, sculpture, video, a hologram installation, and music as a process of commemoration of their past masculine self. MUXXXE will launch segments of their upcoming EP SEMENTERIO at Long Beach City College Art Gallery as part of the exhibition. With SEMENTERIO – a play on words between the word semen and cemetery– the artist aims to lay conceptually and metaphorically all the embodied patriarchal behaviors that coexist within them in order to heal from the damage product of Mexico’s violent macho culture. Considering Mexico’s alarming rates of gender-based violence and mortality, works like SEMENTERIO play a crucial role in comprehending how machismo threatens the lives of women and queer individuals in a state that values them as disposable.
Curated by Karla Aguiñiga, Art Gallery and Exhibitions Manager
MUXXXE (Tijuana,1993), is a graduate of the Autonomous University of Baja California with a bachelor’s degree in Plastic Arts. In 2016 they made a study exchange at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, Mexico and in 2017 at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
MUXXXE, is a cross-border persona that I created to present myself anonymously as a person of a “third gender”. Through their interdisciplinary approach on music, they make a critical reflection on what it means to be a “queer” latinx living in the border of a third world country. Through that identity they explore larger realities/problems: from the unique relationship between Tijuana and the United States, our obsession with fame, beauty and technology, performance of gender and the migratory crisis.
Currently they are working on their upcoming EP “SEMENTERIO”, they were part of the artistic educational program “New Native Narratives” by The Front Arte y Cultura , they have been beneficiary of the artist funding FONCA in the category of performance and alternative media 2020-2021, they have been selected at the “XXIII Bienal Plástica de Baja California”, their work has been published through different international media such as "I-D", "Playground", “Telemundo”, “BRUT”, “ABC News”,"Cultura Colectiva", "60secdoc" and they have participated in exhibitions, concerts and festivals in Mexico, Guatemala, United States, Australia, Canada, Spain, Czech Republic and Germany.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
PROGRAMA JOVENES CREADORES, FONCA 2020-2021, Medios alternativos y Performance.
XXIII & XXIV BIENAL PLASTICA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA.
NEW NATIVE NARRATIVES, Programa de educación artística por THE FRONT Arte y Cultura
The LBCC Art Gallery is a distributor of the carla (Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles) magazine.