Laura Aguilar
American, 1959-2018
Grounded #109
INV-2613
Laura Aguilar
American, 1959-20182006-2007, printed 2018
Grounded #109
Laura Aguilar American, 1959-2018 →contemporary21st Centuryphotographyphotograph
Date
2006-2007, printed 2018
Medium
Inkjet print
Dimensions
Image: 39.8 x 40.7 cm; paper: 55.9 x 43.2 (22 x 17 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Amanda Taub Veazie Acquisition Fund
With a keen eye for form, light, and color, Laura Aguilar photographed herself over a period of years in desert land-scapes across the Southwest. Posing near boulders and vegetation, she suggested a physical connection to lands that could be in the United States or Mexico. Aguilar rhymed her body with natural forms, envisioning a state of belonging free of societal conventions. At the same time one may wonder where the “natural” boundaries lie: between the United States and Mexico, or between the attractive and the abject.
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