About the Book
Rocío Plúas’s "Make Up" consists of a series of pages torn from glossy magazines and then drawn and painted upon with mixed media in such a way that the “canvas” (the magazine background) appears in various degrees of visibility ranging from total opacity to total transparency, thereby creating a kind of palimpsest that offers the viewer a double and contradictory reading. On the level of content, the immaculate and fictitiously wrinkle-free faces and bodies that form the standard fare of beauty and fashion publications are disrupted by portraits of women wearing expressions that fall somewhere between sullen and indifferent ...
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About the Creator
Rocío Plúas.
Guayaquil - Madrid - Barcelona
Leaving my home country Ecuador for the first time at the age of 24, I since then have been living, studying and working in Paris, Quito, Tübingen, Singapore, Buenos Aires, Guayaquil, Hamburg, Atlanta, Madrid, Barcelona … Themes: Migration, rootlessness, transformation, transit, the city, urbanism, communication. emigrants women, culture, believes. Media: Oil, acrylic, chinese ink, plaster, collage on shoe lasts, envelopes, chinese plastic dolls, magazine sheets. Art works in museums: Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno Cuenca, Ecuador; Museo del Banco Central Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador; Völkerkundemuseum Hamburg, Germany; MAAC Museo Antropológico & Arte Moderno Guayaquil, Ecuador