Description
Rubio's tongue-in-cheek comics and artworks bridge high culture with kitsch while exploring constructions of mixed-race identity
Through her work, Mexican artist Wendy Cabrera Rubio (born 1993) investigates the temporal and narrative traces of Mexican identity, a history marked by the creation of a nationalism whose fixation on an Indigenous past wanders into the present. She is part of a generation of artists revisiting the history of Mexican arts and crafts with a multidisciplinary and pedagogical approach. Her practice explores the production and distribution of images; using strategies such as appropriation and performance, Rubio condenses arts and crafts, history and storytelling. This book focuses on the construction of mestizaje (meaning "mixed race") and the differences between a "popular" art and a "cultured" art.
Author: Wendy Cabrera Rubio
Publisher: Temblores Publicaciones
Published: 05/20/2025
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.10h x 9.80w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9786079939762
ISBN10: 6079939762
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Individual Artists | Artists' Books
- Art | Caribbean & Latin American
- Art | Women Artists