Arlene Mejorado's 'Caricias' series focuses on the gay and trans performers channeling Selena, Jenni Rivera, Juan Gabriel and other icons.
For her new photography series “Caricias,” Arlene Mejorado sees herself as not only an artist but more important, as a collaborator, a curator and a friend to the people she’s photographing: LGBTQ people, primarily trans women, who perform as Selena Quintanilla, Jenni Rivera, Juan Gabriel and others at nightclubs, restaurants and backyard tent parties all across Los Angeles.
For strict documentarians drawn to larger-than-life moments that speak without context, work like Mejorado’s might be easy to dismiss. And for the artist herself, acceptance hasn’t always been easy. When Mejorado, 31, was in New York last summer for a Magnum Foundation fellowship, she arranged to workshop her project at the home of photographer Joseph Rodríguez. Mejorado, who is self-taught, was feeling overwhelmed.
In one of Arlene Mejorado’s photos for her “Caricias” project, a groom-to-be holds Barbara Towne while she performs as Paquita la del Barrio at a bachelor-bachelorette party in Compton. Towne is a transgender woman from Honduras who performed as three different divas at the party. “I don’t believe in being a fly on the wall,” Mejorado said of her immersion into a scene. “I do take up space.”
For her project “Caricias,” Arlene Mejorado photographed Lupita Amparo under a large portrait of herself in her East Hollywood apartment, surrounded by garments she made over the years to perform as various divas.
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