Artworks
Narrative
Put on me the wig, the breasts, hide my genitals as a dried orchid in a book
I don’t want to belong to the violent world of men
I want to live in hell for a while.
Roberta Marrero-Crossdressing
Death hides beauty within its meaning. Perhaps what it is not anymore, gives something greater to the beauty, the poetic. The beauty of the body is found in its absences, in its symbols. Butterflies, as transvestites, give their beauty to death so they can live. ‘Monarch’ is an art piece inside a body of work made of mixed media of visual arts, such as transvestite identity and practice, in order to discuss ideas such as femininity, beauty and the body. This encapsulated work presents a series of tucking underwear representing an emotional diary and a reflection about loss. In general aspects, as an ex-voto or religious offering, these types of pieces are constant in Belmonte’s (Seville, 2003) productions, which aim to find poetry in the dirty, the fragile, the vulnerable; elevating prejudice to an autobiographical level.
Roberta Marrero-Crossdressing
Death hides beauty within its meaning. Perhaps what it is not anymore, gives something greater to the beauty, the poetic. The beauty of the body is found in its absences, in its symbols. Butterflies, as transvestites, give their beauty to death so they can live. ‘Monarch’ is an art piece inside a body of work made of mixed media of visual arts, such as transvestite identity and practice, in order to discuss ideas such as femininity, beauty and the body. This encapsulated work presents a series of tucking underwear representing an emotional diary and a reflection about loss. In general aspects, as an ex-voto or religious offering, these types of pieces are constant in Belmonte’s (Seville, 2003) productions, which aim to find poetry in the dirty, the fragile, the vulnerable; elevating prejudice to an autobiographical level.
Biography
Belmonte (Seville, 2003) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is focused on understanding what is considered as poetic in the form of a visual dimension. In order to achieve this, she works with different media to put a question mark on concepts such as the construction of the self, the body or the gender in terms of feminine/masculine.
She studies the possibilities from the transvestite practice and identity, as well as the mixed media in visual art through her own body. No man, no woman, Belmonte is a transvestite.