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Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo)

<p>Full Title: A sculpture for Trans Women A sculpture for the Non-Binary Femmes A sculpture for Two-Spirit People • I am a woman. I don’t care what you think • (Transphobia is everywhere and everyone is susceptible to enacting it at any moment) (Unlearn the transphobia brewing within) I am a Trans Women. I am a Two-Spirit Person. I am a Woman. This is for my sisters and sib-lings everywhere. History erased many of us but we are still here. I will fight for our rights until the day I die. Exile me and I’ll keep fighting.</p><p>TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO LIVE! PROTECT BLACK TRANS PEOPLE! PROTECT INDIGENOUS TRANS WOMEN AND TWO-SPIRIT PEOPLE! </p><p>Born in 1989 in Dallas, US<br />Lives and works in New-York, US</p><p>A statue is a confrontation and a celebration at the same time. Also, it’s a kind of art that blends in with life, outside of the confines of a gallery or museum that impose a specific context and codes, which opens the work to a certain blurriness that Kuriki-Olivo has been interested in for a long time. Accompanied by a simple placard that reads «Woman», this statue also represents a protest, a direct confrontation with something that has long been pushed towards invisibility.</p><p><br />Although considered as healers or helpers, sacred even, in certain indigenous cultures, trans people have been marginalised, persecuted and erased from histories. Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo, unsure how to exist in a world that might turn hostile upon the revelation of her true self, spent years in hiding until coming out fully and physically in a nude performance as Puppies Puppies, «like jumping off a cliff». «Now I speak for myself,» she said of that event. The sculpture for Art Basel Parcours is in many ways an extension of this initial move to freedom and openness: A 3D scan of the artists nude body as a sculpture, placed deliberately in public space.<br /> </p><p>Puppies Puppies, aka  Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) works in performance, sculpture and installation. Only since 2018 she uses her name for her art, after working anonymously before. She combines the ready-made as an object, often in the form of mass-produced consumer items or symbols of pop culture, from Spongebob Squarepants to Voldemort, with the idea of the ready-made as actions and gestures.</p><p> </p>

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Galerie Francesca Pia

Balice Hertling

Trautwein Herleth

OVR: Basel

Full Title: A sculpture for Trans Women A sculpture for the Non-B...

Galerie Francesca Pia, Balice Hertling, Trautwein Herleth

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