Alicia Grullon

My work deals with encounters between people. The urgency, excitement, and awkwardness of human interactions drive my questions about gender, race, class, and activism. I create live art work, sometimes using masks or doing re-enactments of real events because they allow me to border between reality and theatricality, the staged and the documented. Masks let me become invisible thus making me more visible to people who would otherwise disregard my presence because I am a woman of color. Re-enactments allow me to examine the dialouge of looking and I become both the observer and observed. My projects happen mostly in public and are initiated from a documentary impulse where everything accidental and local becomes setting and character. I adjust to any given circumstances and see the space surrounding me as an extension of the fleeting relationships I develop with people who interact with me.