Gera

Invoking a Mexican slang term that translates roughly as white girl, Gera considers how the bodys meaning as a racialized, gendered, and sexualized surface shifts as it crosses linguistic and national borders. Gaydoss disarmingly direct addresses slip between the spaces of story and reality, traversing the many meanings of appearance: not only the physical image and its attendant assumptions, but also the act of arriving or becoming visible. Moving between Los Angeles, Oaxaca, Mexico City, and Talcott, Virginia, Gera traces the way touristic desire, folklore, and stereotype transform the languages we speak and the bodies we inhabit.