Media Defacements - Part 1 (Mediaciones Sin Rostro - 1a Parte)
2004
Naturalizations Series (Serie Naturalizaciones), Begun 2002
Digital video, b&w, sound. Duration 3min.
Edition of 12 (DVD)
Shown on monitor or as wall projection installation loop
PL CAT#: 04.xx.520.1002.52.325
Selection of stills from the digital video
Media Defacements - Part 1 (Mediaciones Sin Rostro - 1a Parte)
2004
Naturalizations Series (Serie Naturalizaciones), Begun 2002
C-prints from b&w digital simulations - each print includes
title sheet indicating image sources
Various dimensions (10” short dimension consistent
across suite)
Suite of 20, Edition of 10 & 2 AP
Originally published in Journal Rethinking Marxism
- Vol.4, #16, October, 2004
PL CAT#: 04.xx.520.1001.35.325
Media Defacement #14, 15 1/2 x 10 in
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| Media Defacement #20, 15 1/4 x 10 in | Media Defacement #17, 14 1/2 x 10 in |
Collections: Gilberto Cárdenas Collection, Notre Dame, IN (#3 of 12)
The journalistic images that appear in this video and suite have been significantly altered
by the artist to open an internal dialogue between seemingly disparate areas of
the contemporary world stage. The original photographs all share a common
icon: human defacement. Indigenous zapatistas wearing black ski-masks in
southern Mexico, women wearing blue burqas in Kabul or black abayas in Saudi
Arabia, Iraqi torture victims wearing green or black hoods at Abu Ghraib, Michael
Jackson wearing a mask in Russia, and black bloc members covering their face in
Seattle, are but a few examples of the refusal of the face which has become the
paradoxical icon of our generation.