MartÃn Gutierrez, 24, is a gender-blurring singer exactly who seamlessly integrates performance, video, and photography to activate (and disrupt) their audience into witnessing society as he does: somewhere in which he constantly grapples with social problems linked to race, sex, gender, and course. Its a cocktail, probably unsurprisingly, which has had numerous inside trend world currently taking a desire for their early work.
Saint Laurent
plucked Gutierrez (whom generates music according to the name Martine) regarding obscurity as soon as the brand name selected their unreleased solitary,
“Palms Away,”
for
their 2012 sail collection movie editorial; residences like
Dior
and
Acne
have actually then followed suit by using his music, also.
Beginning today and running through August 16, the RISD graduate’s very first unicamente convention, titled
Martin(e),
would be on view from the
Ryan Lee Gallery
in Chelsea. As well as a three-part, eerily melancholic movie series entitled
Martine Pt. 1-3
, the exhibition would include a photograph show labeled as
Genuine Dolls
whereby Gutierrez really dives in to the world of life-sized intercourse dolls â by presuming the personae of four different dolls he’s named Ebony, Luxx, Mimi, and Raquel. Click through the slideshow for hypnotized, very first by stark juxtaposition among these sex dolls posing wantonly in a suburban setting, and second, as you procedure that Gutierrez themselves will be the doll in most solitary photograph.