NERY GABRIEL LEMUS addresses violence that is often quietly hidden behind closed doors. One series of drawings highlights domestic violence through images appropriated from Spanish language fotonovelas—graphic novels featuring contemporary stories of love and struggle. Removed from their original narrative context, the drawings reveal intense scenes of domestic violence in this popular media. Lemus further collaborated with domestic abuse survivors from Five Acres Grace Center (Pasadena, California), contrasting their very real expe- riences against the popular fictions. Subsequently, the painting If Your Daughter Ever… chal- lenges us to consider what it means to fully accept the other by baring the racist concerns that persists in our usually unspoken fears.
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