This video piece re-examines Mendieta’s Siluetas Series (1973) with expanding foam as a representative of the industrial materials that form today’s urban landscape and the beach as a site of political confrontation and a natural frontier. The work also deals with themes of dislocation and belonging in relation to my own migration from Puerto Rico to New York City.
Industrial Silhouette (Beach), 2017
Video
02 minutes, 33 seconds
Kevin Quiles Bonilla 