NIA DE INDIAS
Dandi 7, series, Dandis del Puerto
2019 Season 1 - Straight White Male
NIA DE INDIAS
Medium:
Digital and Printed billboards
Displayed:
UK-wide, July - August 2022
Artwork Description:
Photographs intervened with acrylic paint, rescued from antique markets. The artist takes these documents to make an eminently authorial production, depersonalizing the subjects of reality, satirizing them, laughing at their “masculinity” and the canon that is has built around it.
NEI (Nos están invadiendo or They are invading us) is a character created by Nía De indias, a kind of ghost that possesses men or groups of men, and that as we see in the photographs, transforms their faces and their hands.
Artist's Comment:
They are invading us.
Bio:
Nía De indias (Andrés Parra Herrera) is Colombian and has lived and worked in Santiago, Chile since 2011. They work hand in hand with their drag alter ego Nía De indias since 2015, exploring various spaces in the city with the aim of making their Queer identity visible in public. Through their work, they reflect on aspects related to migration, the subversion of hegemonic canons in the history of art and masculinity through makeup, and all of this without forgetting to have fun while doing it.
Curator's Comment:
A spectral manifestation in which NEI, a Babadook-type figure, appears like a watermark throughout historical ephemera. A satire of both pale skinned colonial overseers and the macho male, incorporating aesthetics of drag and ‘lucha libre’ wrestling masks.
About
NIA DE INDIAS
Credit & Notes
Portrait (masked man) Dandi 7, series, Dandis del Puerto (2019)
