"For Frieze London 2025, kurimanzutto presents a solo booth by Ana Segovia, featuring a new body of work that continues the artist's critical engagement with the visual codes of masculinity in popular culture. Taking familiar images from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and the Western genre, Segovia reconfigures and reimagines these familiar archetypes through pictorial interventions that challenge normative depictions of gender and national identity."
"In this new series, Segovia introduces Ramón, a fictional character conceived as a vehicle to examine and subvert inherited narratives of male representation. Focusing on fragmented gestures-particularly the character's movements from the waist down - the works suggest a choreography of intimacy, implicating the viewer in a scene where attraction and inhibition coexist, the sliced body becomes a site of desire."
An exhibition at Frieze London 2025 features a new body of paintings that interrogate visual codes of masculinity drawn from Golden Age Mexican cinema and the Western genre. A fictional character, Ramón, operates as a vehicle to examine and subvert inherited narratives of male representation through fragmented, waist-down gestures that imply choreography, intimacy, attraction, and inhibition. Saturated hues and cinematic painterly techniques suspend linear storytelling, encouraging open-ended readings that emphasize ambiguity, performance, and identity fluidity. The sliced body functions as a site of desire where societal expectations and personal acceptance collide, inviting reconsideration of constructed gender roles.
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