LATEST WORK: MY FIERCE AUNT BIANCA
RSVP to a screening of: “MY FIERCE aunt bianca” (2023)
January 26, 2023 from 7-9PM at BRIC in downtown Brooklyn.
Logline: While planning a birthday party for her late aunt Bianca “Exotica” Maldonado, María José Maldonado revisits the past in order to celebrate and correct Bianca’s legacy as a transgender woman.
It's never too late to honor the life and legacy of your [trans]cestors.
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“me in the new world order” (2020)
Self-portrait, April/May 2020. I’ve painted since I was twelve, first obsessively then sporadically through the years. When quarantine hit, I couldn’t form words. Painting helped me meditate while building layer upon layer of my face, forced me to literally look at myself, my face for hours. On my own terms, and not as a floating head on a Zoom tile. COVID-19 acutely reminded me of my face—my mouth, nose, eyes—and my body—my lungs, my status as alive and breathing well. And yet I also felt disembodied by our virtual world, reduced to pixels against Zoom backgrounds and technical difficulties. I painted this while quarantined in my New Yawk<3
Process: Click on the painting to learn more & see what “me in the new world order” looked like when it was a work-in-progress!
A tribute to Bianca—my transcestor, my tía gone too soon.