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Martine Gutierrez is the consummate multi-hyphen. The performance artist, writer, and photographer is on a secret mission to add another honorific to his title, which includes producing something for a top television service. On top of that, Gutierrez is opening his new Ryan Lee solo show titled “ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS,” so I thought I’d try and see what a week in his busy schedule looks like. Without delay…
BROKEN FLOWERS AND IPHONE CHARGER. Art is everywhere. The art is shameless.
MARTINE TRAILER AND MASK FOR WOMEN. Facade less aesthetic, more self-erasing. Less popular, more polarized. Less in dialogue, more out of the office.
FAKE INJURY.
AMBER, MARTINE AND RASHIDA.
I am very excited to collaborate with friends. I now feel safe enough to stand in front of someone else’s camera – it puts performance at the forefront of my practice.
JOHN AND MAURI HOLDING MY PICTURE. What is punk? People take pictures of themselves all the time. I photograph myself to feel independent. I am not concerned with how my body is perceived. I’m hot right now. Pop culture will always reflect the changing political arena, and art is emotional synergy.
PAINTING FROM THE GALLERY. We feel alone because humanity is the most precarious species on the planet. Be alone.
SELF-PORTRAIT PHOTO. What is an icon, a cult image? On the contrary, what is an image? What gives power to a symbol? Culture is the political influence of history, a pendulum of domination. What is power without resistance? The historical moment, and the figure that opposes it.
PHONE CAMERA SELF-PORTRAIT PHOTO. I looked into the idea of images that don’t flow well; almost makes an image valuable again – to sabotage its accessibility or notoriety. Like a forgotten ruin that you discover in person. Degraded by time – to bury the image in storage like a stolen museum artifact.
GROUP SELFIE BY NASH.
BEFORE THE ANTI-ICON FIRST BOOK. New York muses come out at night.
MARTINE WITH GRAPES. I have no sense with a boyfriend.
FRIENDS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: JEFF, DARA, MARTINE, MAX, NASH, BLAKE, ELLIOTT, FERN, SONNY AND DEVAN. We were the center of the world.
HIDDEN ELEVATOR CAMERA. Another patriarchal language, a determining framework.
TIRED FLOWER WITH MATTRESS. What is a revelation? A proclamation of clarity, a torn varnish, a bursting. It’s like the world is ending, because it is; he has before, and he will end again.
WITO THROUGH THE CORRIDOR.
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