Jynx Prado

Jynx Prado critiques, questions, and challenges the natural and artificial subjects within cultures, nature, and human existence, as well as the coexistence of them through an interdisciplinary practice with found objects, fabrics, and their body. Using humor, irony and iconography Prado describes their environment and social life as a queer Mexi-Salvi American. Their practice frequently uses burlap, a safe and sustainable natural crop derived from the ordinary jute plant (corchorus olitorius). Burlap fabric is a rough, loose, and yet naturally strong fabric; a material used as a broader metaphor of the cycle of life and death through the natural and artificial. This literal and metaphorical transformation is most prevalent in Prado’s Embodiments series, which consist of various fibrous bodies (humanoid, animalistic, and/or abstracted forms) each singularly and collectively operating as surrogates for the experience of a queer, gender fluid individual.

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