Ghislaine & Lando Fremaux-Valdez
Bodies are secrets, or they are keepers of secrets, because they operate largely outside the reaches of consciousness and vision. Medicine and religion promise to decipher the body secret, each offering an account of what this body is, how it works, and how to care for it. We examine embodiment through the lenses of medicine, religious mythology, and our love for each other, mis/applying the ideas, instruments, and/or experience of each in the portrayal of our own bodies. We “perform” surgical procedures, purifying rites, intimate acts of worship, and feats of miraculous healing on ourselves and each other, often with the use of medical and ceremonial tools, figures, and vestments constructed from items in our house.
Art studio of Ghislaine & LandoFremaux-Valdez, Texas, USA
Ghislaine & LandoFremaux-Valdez’s art studio in Lubbock, Texas, USA
We photograph these exchanges and fabricate our reference imagery through digital collage, which enables us to cut and transplant photographic tissue in the production of new bodies and environments. We draw side by side, building the bones of each drawing with charcoal, the mass with gouache, and the skin with chalk pastel. Through the making of the drawing, we reveal to each other what we cannot see of ourselves, and serve as the stewards of one another’s secrets. Our studio is primarily devoted to our collaborative practice, but we undertake solo work here, too. Current projects concern medical images and problems of portraiture.
Ghislaine & LandoFremaux-Valdez in their art studio
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Ghislaine & LandoFremaux-Valdez art studio Texas, USA