Artist María Fragoso paints drool on her figures’ faces with oil paint – room for the most exciting interpretations, but not here.
On Sundays, people are known to go to mass, including those in Mexico City, and kneel to pray the Padrenuestro while María Fragoso scribbles in sketchbooks. Which is not to say that she has not engaged intensively with the Catholic Church. For the Bachelor of Fine Arts, students go to the Institute College of Art in Maryland, and the university provides pocket money for those with great artistic potential. And María Fragoso proves it. She clearly needs to pick up the pace, as her works are sold before she even finishes the next one. How about a surreal spectacle at the Last Supper, in hot shades of red on canvas, where people don’t eat but drool and sometimes here, sometimes there – a nipple flashes out. How frivolous. And indeed a little unpleasant, the way María’s characters stare into your eyes with a blazing gaze, just to involve the viewer in this perverse performance. Plus all the flies and bitten apples! I’ll leave the interpretation alone, google it yourself if you get the chance. Worthwhile.
