Luis Arturo Aguirre, Desvestidas

Desvestidas

Luis Arturo Aguirre

Publisher
Inframundo
Year
2019
Specifications
Special edition
Handbound
33.5 x 26.5 x 1.5 cm
160 pages
Inkjet and laser printing on different papers

The photographs of Luis Arturo Aguirre seduce. Utopian women, the memory of his sister's dolls, the impact of his first encounter with a transvestite, and the surprise and fascination. The aesthetic of iconic images and figures, references to pop culture and kitsch, are incorporated into images saturated with colour, appealing, intimate, sensual and captivating, stamped by the photographer's gaze with their own seal and identity: the colours of his native Acapulco, its sexiness, freshness and naturalness. A combination of Aguirre's own pleasure in the explicitly, excessively beautiful image and the frank boredom of the subjects in their incarnation as feminine stereotypes: the enjoyment of the game. Aguirre does not look outside; he is not moved by a desire to portray but constructs fantasies long imagined and desired by photographer and subject alike. A transvestite is commonly called "vestida" (dressed), hence the title of the series; what he does is strip them of their clothes and make them "desvestidas" (undressed).

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