Martine Gutierrez: Indigenous Woman Magazine
Cairns Art Gallery
Cairns | AustraliaMartine Gutierrez is a transdisciplinary American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Berkeley, California, in 1989, her mother is a white American and her father is from Guatemala. For Gutierrez, culture and gender were particularly complex issues because of the prevailing biases and values of the ‘white-centric’ community of Vermont where she grew up.
"Language never seemed like a way to clarify who I was… For a long time I have been living fluid concepts of gender with an awareness that the space between the binaries is the only place to find complete freedom." —Martine Gutierrez, Autre Magazine, 2020
In her own words, Indigenous Woman is a self-declared celebration of her Mayan Indian heritage and a navigation of ‘contemporary indigeneity and the ever-evolving self-image.’
"Indigenous Woman marries the traditional to the contemporary, the native to the post-colonial, and the marginalized to the mainstream in the pursuit of genuine selfhood, revealing cultural inequities along the way. This is a quest for identity. Of my own specifically, yes, but by digging my pretty, painted nails deeply into the dirt of my own image I am also probing the depths for some understanding of identity as a social construction."
Martine Gutierrez is a transdisciplinary American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Berkeley, California, in 1989, her mother is a white American and her father is from Guatemala. For Gutierrez, culture and gender were particularly complex issues because of the prevailing biases and values of the ‘white-centric’ community of Vermont where she grew up.
"Language never seemed like a way to clarify who I was… For a long time I have been living fluid concepts of gender with an awareness that the space between the binaries is the only place to find complete freedom." —Martine Gutierrez, Autre Magazine, 2020
In her own words, Indigenous Woman is a self-declared celebration of her Mayan Indian heritage and a navigation of ‘contemporary indigeneity and the ever-evolving self-image.’
"Indigenous Woman marries the traditional to the contemporary, the native to the post-colonial, and the marginalized to the mainstream in the pursuit of genuine selfhood, revealing cultural inequities along the way. This is a quest for identity. Of my own specifically, yes, but by digging my pretty, painted nails deeply into the dirt of my own image I am also probing the depths for some understanding of identity as a social construction."
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