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I Am Not Your Mexican

Past exhibition
May 24 - September 8, 2023 New York City
Fernando Polidura, CF Twelve, 2023

Fernando Polidura

CF Twelve, 2023
Human hair embroidered on cotton paper
8.3 x 7.8 x 2.4 in
21 x 19.6 x 6 cm
This series emerged as an imperative action in response to the daily life into which the artist was suddenly immersed during the confinement due to the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. In response...
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This series emerged as an imperative action in response to the daily life into which the artist was suddenly immersed during the confinement due to the SARS-COV-2 pandemic. In response to this situation, he developed an equally severe and rigorous exercise in which he embroiders human hair on cotton paper, raw materials provided by the immediacy of his environment.

The resulting meticulous works arise from the need to generate a placebo that counters the anxiety and constant desire for control caused by obsessive-compulsive disorder, a particular condition that undermines the artist’s integrity and, consequently, that of the work.
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