Gallery Launch | Cada Cabeza Es Un Mundo
As a part of Peak Design's Community Gallery, Image-maker Carlos Hernandez Transgresses the Alienation of Queer Folks within Dominican-United Statesian Imagi-naries
In Cada Cabeza Es Un Mundo (Every Head's A World), Hernandez captures moments of trust, comfort, and in-timacy-harnessing mechanisms for marginalized com-munities, particularly queer diasporic individuals, to employ against feelings of alienation to reclaim agency.
They capture quotidian rituals, collective memories, symbols, and movements that affirm bodily autonomy through a Dominican and Usian lens, as legislative efforts attempt to deny queer life in both. Hernandez builds on José Esteban Muñoz's theories of world-mak-ing-iconizing how marginalized groups create alternative realities through subversive performance against cisheteronormative expectations to make their own world along the margins of limited possibilities.
The presentation mines themes of un-belonging, nationalism, and radical love through a visual anthropology, illuminating the complex narratives surrounding queerness in the Dominican-USian social imaginaries. Grounded in a critical pedagogy, they challenge exclusionary narra-tives, conjure new saints and families, and advocate for queer pride. Their images are acts of resistance-spells against disappearance.
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