01/04/2023
The visuals for next week!
Aubane Berthommé Martinez is a Rotterdam-based working-class artist and curator. She approaches arts and culture as socio-political and educational tools.
As a multidisciplinary artist, she uses various mediums (mainly photography, ceramics, and painting) to explore, question, and re-construct elements defining one’s identity, with a focus on gender and sexuality. Using self-representation as an empowering process, she gazes at the gaze by reappropriating exotified and historical western aesthetics, honouring her Mediterranean background. Her visual language combines pop culture, kitsch, and extravagance. With an immoderate taste for sweet-sour colors, glitters, and dead plants, she plays with the conventional borders of the mediums she uses.
Considering curation as a medium, Aubane developed a research-based curatorial practice reinterpreting contemporary social classes.
In 2020, she co-created Squish, a q***r and feminist cultural platform supporting LGBTQ+ culture makers. Using multidisciplinary events, the organization questions identity politics with an intersectional approach. Squish emphasizes combining research-based and nonacademic approaches to reach a larger audience and facilitate peer support among members of marginalized or precarious communities.
In 2022, she co-created Kollection Kitsch, a three-month-based exhibition series aiming to make art more accessible both financially and conceptually, by partially turning Wunderbar into an art bar. Featuring local proletarian artists exploring rejected or mocked aesthetics and themes, the aim of the collective is to deconstruct the dominant bourgeois gaze as well as celebrate bad taste and pop culture.
To be seen on the TV tower during: Central Disko X Telenovela X Pascua de Resurrección de María Magdalena
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