Queer Death in Mexico, Memory Art.
Taking inspiration from the research and the recent events in Mexico within the LGBTQ+ community and the works of the artists Betsabeé and Amalia, I created an ofrenda. The altar will honour and remember those in the LGBTQ+ community who have fallen before me and celebrate those who fought for their rights. The ofrenda is memory art as a memento of the battles won but the battles coming our way. The work appropriates an art form and popular culture in which LGBTQ+ is not celebrated or mmentioned. Including issues in the ofrenda like the death sentence for the use of LGBTQ+ people for economic gain or commodification. To showcase how the LGBTQ+ people are fighting the systematic and institutionalized slow killing of LGBTQ+ community members. And to portray the Mexican LGBTQ+ scene that no one knows, in which we have rights, but they keep killing them. In the ofrenda, I intend to explore the remembrance of the members of the LGBTQ+ community in Mexico by using the papel picado and a skull. To represent all the colours of the LGBTQ+ flag as a symbol of the community, I am using paper flowers. Pictures of past and recent events will reference events against the community and its members. Found objects and mirrors incorporate the domestic look of an altar.