Luciana Pinchiero is one of them: although she was born in Argentina, she lived for a long time in Los Angeles and then settled in New York, where she pursued a master’s degree in visual arts at Parsons. Her professional journey was also accompanied by a profound personal transformation, because in this process Pinchiero “came out of the closet,” as she herself says, and that queer identity, which began to develop on a personal level, also had a correlation in her way of making art.
Since then, Pinchiero has delved into collage and sculpture into the different ways in which gender stereotypes and the complexity of the female body have been represented from a perspective that insists on positioning itself outside of heteronormativity.
An arts program, the Bronx Fellowship, gave Pinchiero the opportunity to build a professional network in the arts and was the starting point for building a community that led to friendships, opportunities, and exhibitions that allowed him to reach Praxis New York, where he is currently exhibiting “Bad Posture” until March 9.
The central sculpture, titled the same as the exhibition, presents an installation of almost five meters by two and a half meters, which houses figures cut out of classical statues and life models. The work reflects on classical beauty and artistic creation, challenging the dichotomy between being worshipped (as a deity) and being loved (being humanly wanted).
