Ana de La Cueva "El Paquete"
Jane Kim / Thrust Projects
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El Paquete is a journey into Ana de La Cueva's past and explores male and female sexuality through the lens of her life. In her anthropological exploration, the artist has tracked down ex-lovers, male friends, and men in her family and photographed them in their underwear. The photographs are printed on boxes identical to those on underwear packaging. As a new and unique form of portraiture, El Paquete is a wry commentary on things disposable and simultaneously intimate.
In her own words, de la Cueva appropriates the format of the product's description found on commercial underwear boxes to give us small hints about the men and their relationship to her. She sends a series of questions to each man inquiring on their fetishes, life mottos, and favorite positions ("postura" in her native Spanish can mean "position," as in one's mantra in life, or doubly, his preferred sexual position). Ana de la Cueva, who has previously used embroidery, painting, collage, and video to explore identity in her work, continues this theme in El Paquete. De la Cueva's work is a subtle and subversive critique on the nature of relationships set against the backdrop of our consumer society.
Ana de La Cueva was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and works in New York.
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Schedule
from September 17, 2009 to November 01, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-09-17 from 18:00 to 20:00