Puerto Rican artist Mónica Félix at the group show SaveArtSpace: The Future Is Female at New York City
Mónica Félix, Ext. A Orillas de la Isla Mu, Romance Tropical 2016
SaveArtSpace brings
public art to New York City, showcasing local female artists on advertising
spaces throughout the area beginning June 26, 2017. The exhibition is entitled
SaveArtSpace: The Future Is Female. As an arts organization, we feel that it is
our duty to align and ally with the broader artistic community to create
exhibitions that address intersectional concerns which can spread a message of
progressive and positive social change and empowerment.
The selected artists
will also be exhibited at The Storefront Project, with an opening reception on
July 7, 2017.
The curators are Alyse
Archer-Coite, Marie Tomanova, Sandra Hong, Meryl Meisler, & Brittany
Natale.
All submissions are
featured on The Future Is Female Submissions and on SaveArtSpace social media
pages with the permission of the artist. SaveArtSpace: The
Future Is Female is An 1m1w1d Event. Made possible in part by Atlas Music
Publishing. SaveArtSpace, an arts
organization that transforms advertising spaces into canvases for public art,
is reclaiming New York City billboards for the female gaze.
Mónica Félix is a
professional photographer, self-portrait and conceptual artist.
Born and raised in
Puerto Rico, she got her BA at the School of Communications at the University
of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras to then move to New York City where she formally
completed studies in photography at Pratt Institute in Manhattan. Beyond the
lens, through her feminine themes and her ambitious affirmations, Félix
explores the needle and thread that unite life and art. Currently, she works
between New York and Puerto Rico as a professional photographer expanding her
artwork in a parallel manner.
This image belongs to
an abstract body of work of photography, video and installation that compose
the scenario and events of the represented scenes. Based on a two-year research
I did on a lost film, the first Puerto Rican “talkie”Romance Tropical (1934), I
took the facts of information about the plot and the production of it to
narrate it from an empowering womanly perspective of the female characters I
found. These images extend from a moment in history to the narrow path of an
identity broken and forgotten nation.
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