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Damian Siqueiros
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Hi to everyone!
Just to tell you that I have migrated to my own web page: www.damiansiqueiros.com
If you need to contact me write to info@damiansiqueiros.com

Thanks!
Damian
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Born in Tijuana, Mexico in 1980. He started his formal artistic formation in the year 2000, attending Universidad de Monterrey. But regarding photography he was self-taught until he made a small course in Spain in EFTI Spain, and than his master degree in UNAM (México). He has won several contest and scholarships that have allowed him to support his artistic work and research. His interest in fashion and publicity has allowed him to be published in Elle magazine and Vogue in a special project for Mercedes Benz. He always has maintained a social view and perspective in his work and life. From 1998 to 2000 he work in the diffusion of culture trough radio, and in a NGO to raise money for AIDS infected people. At the moment he is the recipient of a scholarship given by the Mexican and the French guverment to study in École National Superièure des Arts Decoratifs, in Paris.
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The other who lives within us/ everyday performance:
Alternative realities for understanding ourselves

The other-ness, usually we relate it to something that is outside of us; something that we are not. It is a big topic within gender, identity studies, and in art. We find it in artists like Cindy Sherman and Yasumasa Morimura, who I find very close to my research.
In the work I present in my last project, "the other" is someone who lives inside us, which might seem real to others, and even to ourselves, but in fact is just the public projection of the construction of our own identity. In other words it's a façade, a conscious or unconscious every day performance we put up to fit into the world.
The way we behave in public, how we dress, even whom and what we desire is all a construction based on a series of social laws and references, imposed by social institutions and structures such as: Family, Church, schools, friends, publicity and fashion. In "The other who lives within us" public space becomes a stage and the subjects become performers. The inner fantasies of each character are displayed on public space and therefore, becoming intimate, leaving all the social laws and structures that participate in this construction, suspended.
I don't want to shock or tell the spectator who he is. I want to establish a dialogue that allows me to expose to him these laws and structures as a montage.  The work invites the spectator to question the truthfulness of his/her identity. An identity that seems natural when it fits into the social structure, or in the words of Simone de Beauvoir, makes it legible, and if it remains outside the norms makes it illegible.
The identities presented in this project found themselves between an uncertain legibility and an innocuous intelligibility. They are incrusted in an accepted representation and social structure, such as public space, ancient painting, and fashion. I consider Painting to constitute, through art history, the medium by antonomasia, of representation of ontological social structures through which identity is constructed.
This justifies the using of pictorial aesthetics in my work. One of the main purposes in my work is to question the interaction between the spectator and the images. Specifically how the representation of a topic can be shocking or acceptable, depending of the medium used. In my oeuvre the medium is photography "disguised" as painting.  Hal Foster has called this disguise the screen . Representational Painting aesthetics work as a screen between the spectator and the reality represented by the artist.  And also it's a less shocking way to confront him with his own reality. The images pose themselves as the other who lives within us, recognized in order to establish a dialogue with each person.
These images constitute a multidisciplinary project that allows me to be a make-up artist, director, photographer and digital manipulator. But most important, it allows me to help the spectator to redefine the way he looks at his identity, the other who lives within us.
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First of all, an apologhy to all of you that have visited my gasllery, and left a commentary on the first page... I always try to answer all the commentaries on the pictures, but not until now i realized that i had many on the general view of my page.
Second, THANKS to all you that have said such beautiful things about my work, as i said to TRIBAL, is really gratifying to receive good comments... some times even the bad ones can help when they are funded.
Though i know and i become to realize long a go that i couldnt be anything other than an artist (not meaning a big genious or anything) just a devoted person to creating art, still for me is really important to recieve input from viewers... it is a great deal of the fuel that moves me.
Here in DA i have the fortune of encountering sensible viewers, spectators, colegues, creators that sometimes have the time to stop and look at something that ive done and printed my passion on. Some fave one of those pieces and some leave a meaningful piece of their mind.
From now on i promise to put more attention to the general coments .

Again thanks for stoping by... its really a true pleasure having you here and reading you!

Damian Siqueiros
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