Artists
Laura Aguilar
In the Grounded photographic series, Laura Aguilar stages her naked body in the rocky landscapes of Joshua Tree National Park, landscapes that she transforms into queer and decolonized terrain. At once performative and sculptural, this act permutes territorial and corporal codes, as the artist’s body embodies issues of exploitation, thingification, and violence. Although tending to blend in with the arid scenery, her body is emphatically present; the confusion between object and subject is ultimately lifted in favour of affirming a tacit—and critical—presence. This sculpted body becomes the site of a denunciation of underrepresentation and discrimination and of their destructive impact on subjects: a protrusion onto the normative plane.
Exhibited work(s):
Grounded series
Grounded #105 (2006)
Grounded #111 (2006)
Grounded #112 (2006)
Untitled (2007)
- Born
- 1959, San Gabriel, United States
- Countries / Nations
- United States
- Died
- 2018, Long Beach, United States
Works

Laura Aguilar
Grounded series
2019
Exhibition view, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal
Photo credit: Photo credit: Jean-Michael Seminaro
© MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image and Galerie de l’UQAM.

Laura Aguilar
Grounded #105
2006
Grounded series
Archival pigment print
Courtesy of the estate of Laura Aguilar
© The estate of Laura Aguilar

Laura Aguilar
Grounded #112
2006
Grounded series
Archival pigment print
Courtesy of the estate of Laura Aguilar
© The estate of Laura Aguilar

Laura Aguilar
Grounded Untitled
2007
Grounded series
Archival pigment print
Courtesy of the estate of Laura Aguilar
© The estate of Laura Aguilar