This is my first official solo show! This exhibit is a visual conversation on society's perception of women and female sexuality through recent works.
As a queer Latina who's spent most of her life being told that God does not support my lifestyle, my mere existence, I spend a lot of time wondering whose truth that is. Why is God this outside force? Why are there so many stipulations to be worthy of this relationship? Why can't God be in us? Why can't God be us? The highest version of ourselves we can be. I created a series of Queer Women of Color as their “god-selves”. As divine idols. As saints. I wanted to show these women, by some considered “ungodly”, as beings to be worshipped. Because God's love, which is described as true divine love, should not come with conditions.
The “Ungodly Women” exhibition will feature visual and poetic works that explore the impacts of patriarchal perceptions among societies and the dualities within biblical perceptions that makes us question "what does it mean to be a child of God, what does it mean to be me?"