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Carlos Amorales
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biography
(b. Mexico City, 1970; Amorales currently lives and works in Mexico City and Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
He studied in Amsterdam at both the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten. Amorales' work investigates the construction and movement of identities across cultural and social spaces. His recent work has engaged the popular wrestling world of Mexico. Drawn to the central role that masks and fictional identities play within this environment, the artist has created a wrestling persona for himself called "Amorales." The artist¹s work uses a wrestling mask that is a visual interpretation of the artist¹s face, as articulated by Ray Rosas, a mask-maker and former wrestler enlisted by Amorales to help acclimate him to wrestling culture. "Amorales," the wrestling personality, has been loaned by the artist to various individuals who engages audiences within varying social contexts. With these performances, Amorales has explored the social conventions within popular wrestling, and within the art and business worlds, as well as themes related to the interplay between eroticism and violence. Amorales presents his projects in the form of photographs, video, and on-line documentation. Another significant aspect of the artist¹s production has been the conversations and conferences he has organized with artists and intellectuals in the United States and Europe. Through these discussions Amorales seeks to contextualize his work within a tradition of U.S. feminist performance of the 1960s and '70s, as well its relation to European traditions of Dada and Surrealism. His recent work has been shown in galleries and alternative spaces in Mexico, The Netherlands, Belgium and the United States. His work has additionally been exhibited at the 24th International Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (1998); the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City (1998) and Insite2000 in San Diego and Tijuana (2000). Courtesy: inSite2000
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