Praxis is pleased to present Golden Skin, a solo exhibition by Scherezade García. The exhibition continues García’s longstanding exploration of identity, migration, ancestry, cultural encounter, and the complex histories that have shaped Las Américas.
Since 1996, a cinnamon-colored figure has appeared throughout García’s work. Her color begins with an act of mixing. García combines the colors on her palette until they become something new, a gesture that for her carries an idea of inclusion. The resulting cinnamon is not intended to describe one particular skin tone. It is a color born from many colors, and the figure that emerges from it carries that same multiplicity. In her paintings, this seemingly singular skin tone is surrounded by intensely chromatic environments of pinks, reds, blues, greens, and golds. What appears to be one color is therefore already made up of many, while the colors surrounding the figure make that multiplicity visible again.
This idea of the figure as a composite is also connected to García’s family. The faces in her paintings are often inspired by photographs of women in her family, including relatives from different generations.