Xavier Tavera: Farsas January 3, 2010

This exhibition features three bodies of work by Minneapolis-based photographer Xavier Tavera. The series - 'Enmascarados,'' Luchas,' and 'El Circo' - show Tavera's interest in both quickly captured and highly staged portraiture. In both cases, Tavera's work reveals the productive role of the sitter in the making of his or her own image. With subjects ranging from professional wrestlers on their way to the ring to a dramatically costumed young girl seated atop a horse before a painted sky, Tavera's work illuminates the overarching, somewhat farcical artifice that is identity itself.