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Container #6, 2020
Archival pigment print on paper
40 x 60 inches
Courtesy of the artist.
Artist Statement
My ideas are concerned with otherness, self-consciousness and displacement.
I’ve made work inspired by women in my family, labor, dislocation, psychology, myth, art history, magic realism and symbols. I’m interested in how historical hierarchies inform and condition current identities; how constructions manifest through the body: how they are received, internalized and then regurgitated by it.
Living between the United States and the Dominican Republic (and having lived in Belgium) has made me aware of my own difference and subjectivity depending on context. Reflecting on this, my work has transitioned from identity in an intimate manner to examining larger transnational and transcultural exchanges.
My current body of work focuses on the construction of the female subject in relation to nature and landscape in a “tropical” context, shaped by a foreign Gaze that demands leisure and pleasure. Like nature, femininity has been imagined and represented throughout history as idealized, tamed, conquered / colonized and exoticized. I’m currently revising existing cultural products that engage in this form of representation and challenging them through my work.
My process is an on-going exploration across media: a painting or a sculpture might be a departing point for a video or a performance, and they might all merge into a final piece or develop independently. The constant in my work is the presence of the body and the interest in creating distinct power positions with it, often contradictory but operating simultaneously. To navigate binaries in search of inbetweenness, trying to both fulfill and sabotage expectations at once.
Artist Bio
Joiri Minaya (b. 1990) (she/her) is a NY-based Dominican-United Statesian multi-disciplinary artist. She studied art at the ENAV (DR), the Chavón School of Design, and Parsons. Minaya has exhibited across the Caribbean, the U.S. and internationally. She recently received a Jerome Hill Fellowship, a NY Artadia award and the BRIC’s Colene Brown Art Prize, and has participated in residencies at Skowhegan, Smack Mellon, Bronx Museum, Red Bull House of Art, LES Printshop, Socrates Sculpture Park, Art Omi, ISCP, Vermont Studio Center, New Wave and Silver Art Projects.
@joiriminaya
Courtesy of the artist.
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