Tigre Escobar

Lives and works in Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Artist statement

In my interdisciplinary practice, I blend the techniques of fashion, art, and documentary photography to create vivid human contemporary stories. His latest project includes members of the local and immigrant Latin Queer communities around the world. This project explores how the art of drag emphasizes endless possibilities for self-creation and identity empowerment. To do this, my compositions often take intimate scenarios and disrupt them. For example, in my series Proud Humans, I photograph artists that use drag to create extraordinarily imaginative alter egos from Aliens to Monsters to Dolls in the intimate spaces of their everyday lives, merging the quotidian with futuristic narratives by spotlighting these alter egos.This project specifically reimagines concepts surrounding identity, beauty, and the ever-elusive self in defiance of gender binaries, especially in the Latin American context. I consider storytelling to be my primary artistic medium. I interweave narrative and contemporary portraiture as I redefine and demystify outdated definitions of the Queer community and its origins. By using a palette of eloquent visuals depicting personal spaces and incredible alter egos, my work shows the vibrancy that emerges from the spaces between dualities. I started using color in my work following a certain legacy. It is the result of my early training as an art historian and curiosity to find patterns and stories as I documented the world. This then became the backbone of...

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