Juan Pareja, Un Mestizo (Christian-Morisco), After Velazquez
Oil on Canvas
80 x 61 cm

X, Un Mestizo
2020

The series highlights the development of racial thought across history by revising 17th-century Spanish concepts of race to a contemporary understanding. As the idea of race can change as it exists insofar as people use race to identify themselves and others racially. it can be a point of empowerment and discrimination. Being mixed-race contests most essentialist racial constructs and invites intrusive questions and readings of my body, origin and loyalty. “
 
Josiah Odigie, Un Mestizo (Swiss, Indian, English and Nigerian)
Oil on Canvas
61 x 46cm
Unknown Girl, Una Mestiza
Oil on Canvas
77 x 61 cm
 
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