A group show of selected painting and drawing BFA graduates exploring each artist’s upbringing, cultural links, and journey to break out of destructive cycles they’ve been culturally conditioned to.
Using the language of dada art, I drew inspiration from readymades in how they disrupt or disidentify themselves within “art” as objects. Through these means, I disidentify with institutions by poking fun at my physical and metaphysical experiences. I attempted to understand the underlying foundation of the painting and drawing area of the University of Utah and religious practices in Mormonism and found it nonsensical. This body of sculpture and performance is to expose and critique the nonsensical yet marginalizing parallel across the institutions of art and Mormonism in Utah. José Esteban Muñoz coined and defined dissidentification as: “the ways in which identity is enacted by minority subjects who must work with/resist the conditions of (im)possibility that dominant culture generates”. To disidentify with the underlying structures is to imagine other possibilities.
