MartÃn Gutierrez, 24, is a gender-blurring artist which seamlessly combines overall performance, video, and picture taking to activate (and disrupt) their audience into witnessing globally as he does: somewhere where he continuously grapples with social problems linked to race, sexuality, sex, and class. It is a cocktail, probably unsurprisingly, that contains a lot of during the style world already taking an interest in their early work.
Saint Laurent
plucked Gutierrez (whom creates music beneath the title Martine) regarding obscurity if the brand picked his unreleased single,
“Palms Up,”
for
the 2012 cruise collection video article; residences like
Dior
and
Pimples
have followed match through their songs, also.
Beginning these days and running through August 16, the RISD graduate’s very first solo exhibition, titled
Martin(e),
are on view on
Ryan amy lee gallery
in Chelsea. Besides a three-part, eerily melancholic video clip show called
Martine Pt. 1-3
, the convention will include an image series labeled as
Actual Dolls
wherein Gutierrez really dives to the field of life-sized intercourse dolls â by assuming the personae of four different dolls which he’s named Ebony, Luxx, Mimi, and Raquel. Click on through the slideshow in order to get hypnotized, very first by the stark juxtaposition among these gender dolls posing wantonly in a suburban environment, and second, whenever process that Gutierrez himself could be the doll in almost every unmarried image.
