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Current Exhibition 07.2020:
MIRROR: “A Reflection of the Black + Latinx Diaspora”
Stories from the Black + Latinx Diaspora inspired a collection of fashion, photography and writing, resulting in a self-published magazine– MIRROR Magazine.
MIRROR began as Eusebio’s Senior Thesis Project and was showcased within the 2020 MICA Experimental Fashion Show, 2020 MICA Commencement Exhibtion, and the esteemed Serving the People BFA Show 2020. MIRROR Magazine is now an independent entrepreneurial project– purchase your limited edition copy of Issue No.1 and hold your MIRROR up to society.
EDITOR’S LETTER
I was raised in a first-generation American home at the intersection of Peruvian-Dominican heritage and Black-Latino culture. With Spanglish (English with siblings + Spanish with parents) as our language of origin, the parameters of our intersectional identities were not easily defined.
During my childhood identity crisis, visual media –TV, film, magazines and photos– were the only windows for referencing others that looked like me in hopes of finding myself through a reflection of someone else.
I couldn’t find one person in the media that came from the same intersectional identity as I do (and I still haven’t, the only people that reflect my intersectional identity are my family, which strengthens our bond).
My Afro-Latina identity has been a journey of self-discovery, through my artwork I have found inner peace through self-research.
During my childhood identity crisis, visual media –TV, film, magazines and photos– were the only windows for referencing others that looked like me in hopes of finding myself through a reflection of someone else.
“Visual media were windows but did not turn out to be mirrors.”
I couldn’t find one person in the media that came from the same intersectional identity as I do (and I still haven’t, the only people that reflect my intersectional identity are my family, which strengthens our bond).
My Afro-Latina identity has been a journey of self-discovery, through my artwork I have found inner peace through self-research.
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MIRROR challenges viewers to not define themselves, and especially people of color, through stereotypes common in visual media, instead to appreciate the complexities, intersections and nuances of one’s own story.
“The mirror is not facing outside, but rather in.”
Six models of the Black and Latinx diaspora were interviewed and asked how they would want to see themselves reflected within visual media. The models became muses; each of their stories inspired editorial photoshoots with the models, then those photos were designed into textiles, digitally printed on fabrics and sewn into a fashion collection.
The stories, photography and fashion of the year-long project have been disseminated into the pages of–
MIRROR Magazine, a self-published collection of fashion, photography, and stories that are “A Reflection of the Black and Latinx Diaspora”.
Interviews
The most revealing thing I learned from conducting these interviews was that many of the models had never been asked how they want to be reflected within visual media. Confirming that–
people of color’s stories are often times not realistically represented in visual media.
Photography
After every conversation I listened to the interview recordings to transcribe and edit their responses into a single quote that describes the essence of each persons identity and how they’d like to be represented in visual media.
Once I studied their stories, my favorite part of the creative process began–
interpreting each person’s story into photography by imagining visuals for abstract words and feelings.
Fashion
The process didn’t end there, after creating photos based off the six muses stories, I designed textiles incorporating their photos. The textile design then went on to be printed on fabric and sewn into an individualized garment for each model to wear as part of the MIRROR Fashion Collection, debuted in MICA’s MME Fashion Show. in May 2020.
Select photos of the muses modeling their looks. ︎︎︎
