“La maja desnuda”… Androginia

In "La maja desnuda" ... Androginia, by Freddie Mercado, the artist appears before the camera lying seductively on a bed in the manner of the famous Romantic painting by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. This photograph is part of the series "Efémerides con Sorna en Transgresión", and one of five photographs in the exhibition that document some of the performances by Mercado that would mark a milestone in the history of Puerto Rican art during the 1980s and 1990s. In the series, Mercado reaffirms and discusses the rupture of the relationship between gender and biology, inserting in the local art scene an important transgression that would demarcate new areas of ambiguity: art, rupture, body, (in)conformity, gender and iconography.