Laura Aguilar was a self-taught photographer whose images focused on portraiture and self-portraiture. As a Latina lesbian she also faced multiple health issues throughout her life, Aguilar's art gave voice to people marginalized from society, including herself. Her photographs celebrate the obese female form (often her own body), questioning the white male gaze in art history and playing with notions of abstraction and landscape. Grounded # 109 suggests nature as a welcoming place for bodies rejected by mainstream culture. Aguilar was an extremely revolutionary figure who died during the exhibition tour of her first solo exhibition.

Source: DMAC NEWS, Sep Oct Nov Dec 2021