mujero (b. 1996) is a New York based artist and director. They received a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2021. They have exhibited at galleries and spaces within the United States. 

In my practice, I use sneakers as a material representation of societal expectations of gender. Sneaker culture allows for mass produced, corporate objects to be conduits for acceptable masculine interests and performance. I deconstruct pairs of shoes, then arrange the pieces into mirrored forms and adhere them onto found and constructed frames. At times I spray paint the pieces, leaving them with varying degrees of opacity. This creates further distance from their original use and therefore meaning. Through my reconfigurations, I transform these shoes into something queer and rorscharch-esque.

I have recently been inspired by Guy Debord’s notion of “Detournement”: the rearrangement or intervention of popular symbols as a way to re-contextualize them and destabilize our notions of power. My aim is to interrogate the meanings of well-known materials and images through deconstruction and juxtaposition. In doing so, I create dissonance between their original meaning and their new formations.





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