dsiqueiros

Hi to everyone! Just to tell you that I have migrated to my own web page: www.damiansiqueiros.com If you need to contact me write to info@damiansiqueiros.comThanks! Damian

Born in Tijuana, Mexico in 1980. He started his formal artistic formation in the year 2000, attending Universidad de Monterrey. But regarding photography he was self-taught until he made a small course in Spain in EFTI Spain, and than his master degree in UNAM (México). He has won several contest and scholarships that have allowed him to support his artistic work and research. His interest in fashion and publicity has allowed him to be published in Elle magazine and Vogue in a special project for Mercedes Benz. He always has maintained a social view and perspective in his work and life. From 1998 to 2000 he work in the diffusion of culture...

The other who lives within us/ everyday performance: Alternative realities for understanding ourselvesThe other-ness, usually we relate it to something that is outside of us; something that we are not. It is a big topic within gender, identity studies, and in art. We find it in artists like Cindy Sherman and Yasumasa Morimura, who I find very close to my research. In the work I present in my last project, "the other" is someone who lives inside us, which might seem real to others, and even to ourselves, but in fact is just the public projection of the construction of our own identity. In other words it's a façade, a conscious or unconsciou...