Sunday strangeness, courtesy of Mexican-Irish American artist Alicia Reyes McNamara. As evidenced in this uncanny depiction of two grappling, ghoulish figures, the painter and sculptor’s work frequently features writhing bodies and twisted limbs, something that relates to “different forms of embodiment for me,” she tells Louise Benson in a recent interview for Elephant. “When I was exploring dismembered body parts I was thinking through ideas of displacement and diaspora, specifically within the Latinx diaspora,” she says. Discover more about the ascendant artist’s practice, and how her dual heritage manifests itself in her strikingly fluid work, here.
