Author ORCID Identifier
Degree Year
2017
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Art
Advisor(s)
Kristina Paabus
Keywords
Exotification, Printmaking, Installation, Luchador mask, Self-portrait, Identity
Abstract
In this body of work I use printmaking to look critically at the commercial consumption of Mexican culture in popular media, using my own experience as a mixed Mexican-American as a lens. I consider how my experience of cultural identity, family history, and assimilation has complicated my interaction with Mexican culture within the United States. My work questions how cultural identity is reduced to stereotypes, employing the reproducibility of print to mimic the proliferation of simplified and exotified portrayals of Mexican-Americans in popular culture. I attempt to contradict this assumed cultural experience by producing work that asserts my own. By creating work that distorts stereotypical imagery, by embedding my own lived experience into these recreated consumer objects, I attempt to counteract and resist misrepresentations of Mexican-American identity.
Repository Citation
Middleton, Margaret Landa, "I Am the Luchadora: Countering Exotification through Printed Installation" (2017). Honors Papers. 197.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/197
