Event Host: Department of Art, Department of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Wexner Center for the Arts
Short Description: As part of the Department of Art's 2019 Visiting Artist Series, Artist Elle Pérez will be visiting campus to give a public lecture on Thursday, October 31st at 4:30pm in the Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater.
Thursday, Oct. 31 from 4:30 – 6 p.m.
Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater
As part of the Department of Art's 2019 Visiting Artist Series, Artist Elle Pérez will be visiting campus to give a public lecture on Thursday, October 31 at 4:30 p.m. in the Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater.
More about Elle Pérez: Elle Pérez’s photographs show the experience of pushing the body. Pérez’s subjects transform themselves, altering their bodies to create pleasure, pain, communion, and self-recognition. A person stares into the camera with desire, wielding a muscled arm. Bruises blossom around the eyes of a woman recovering from facial feminization surgery. “DYKE” seeps from carved skin, spelled out in blood. A luminous hand holds a bottle of testosterone. By simultaneously invoking play, nostalgia, eros, pain, and beauty, the images testify to the richness of transforming what is assumed to be definitive or immutable. These photographs are “neither reflections of reality nor imprints of personhood,” says the artist—instead, Pérez’s work is a study of the human process of creating a new reality for oneself, and an assertion that the photographic process works similarly: not replicating the world, but instead transfiguring it.
Friday, Nov. 1 from 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
386 University Hall
Please join WGSS for a graduate conversation with Elle Pérez on Friday, Nov. 1 at 10:30 a.m. in 386 University Hall. The talk will involve discussing their career in photography, working with and casting peers of the LGBTQ community as photo subjects, using art to study gender identity and queer experience through the body. Please RSVP to Elysse Jones to attend.