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Julio Salgado
born Ensenada, Mexico 1983
Quiero Mis Queerce
2014
screenprint on paper
Inspired by Frida Kahlo's well-known painting Las Dos Fridas (1939), Salgado employs a similar duality to reflect on his challenges as a gay teen hiding his femininity. As a young man, Salgado wanted a fifteenth-birthday celebration, or quinceañera, a traditional coming-out ceremony reserved for young women. When the artist turned thirty, he created this image, he said, to "honor the little boy who didn't get a quinceañera."
Museum purchase through the Lichtenberg Family Foundation, 2020.37.6 |