La Sagrada Maldita
La Sagrada Maldita (LSM) or The Holy Damned is a collaborative project of Alejandra Gutierrez (México) and Astro Escudero (Ecuador). Through new media narratives, LSM explores the polysemy of a word that is universal, ambiguous and contradictory in itself: madre.
At once, madre is;
origin (origen)
matter (materia)
matriarch (matriarca)
Mother Earth (Madre Tierra)
motherland (madre patria)
milk mother (madre de leche)
nun (monja)
MILF (mamacita)
motherfucker (puta madre).
Madre sacralizes and banalizes; honors and discredits.
In thematic chapters, the project experiments with lens-based practices, intervention and performance. In 2021, LSM was awarded the ICP’s New Media Fellowship. Working from a distance, the LSM continues to grow like a rhizome
![Polisemies of Mother,2021 GIF](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67f634ab8e4458dd6fbdc3bccc8f1fe511cbf1f8cbcef86d7927edd9d2562e21/03_SM_01_Astro.gif)
![Aesthetic Bond I, 2021Mixed Media: inkjet photographs, stitching, zipper From the chapter: Matter / Aesthetic Mother](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a00b1dcf12993de7425b9c167c031285ee02eb74fe5942bad627c7f600546dd/03_SM_02_Astro.jpg)
![Aesthetic Bond II, 2021Mixed Media: inkjet photographs, stitching, zipper From the chapter: Matter / Aesthetic Mother](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c1b0dcccbb018eb17862df80557e872b78ffc619414c3586f30bf27f0c66263/03_SM_03_Astro.jpg)
![The VeiI, 2021Digital Photography, plexiglass, makeup From the chapter: Matter / Aesthetic Mother](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b65722a9f57048a368f1582d99e9e47213c216cbefd07d3471c290159f2ae3be/03_SM_04_Astro.jpg)
![Onions, Rising, 2021Digital photographyFrom the chapter: Mother Earth / Matriarch](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eec2ca7cd3fe35af6190728504787a38d89f951f2945583169e7024c96f37ddb/03_SM_10.jpg)
![Grandchildren’s Gifts, 2021Digital photographyFrom the chapter: Mother Earth / Matriarch](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afe5271f8dcf07dfbe7963a75cff5f00e014b4c3d101f0b1342b5eb2fe274c38/03_SM_11.jpg)
![Looking back to Motherland Colombia (salsa earrings), 2021Digital photographyFrom the chapter: Mother Earth / Matriarch](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27247a977cd40262576dfe736a533b38a39792bb1408a3788535157332109393/03_SM_06_Astro.jpg)
![Maternal Line: Linda, Anne, Rubertha, 2021Digital photographyFrom the chapter: Mother Earth / Matriarch](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76e4b86b1ac696fcda9c8f1dac084b3cd8af7de589cba3e246a3c38854dc96cb/03_SM_05_Astro.jpg)
![Blisters, 2021GIF made from VideoFrom the chapter Milk Mother / Nun](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61d8f128a4876f36dfc021045e27ebbb67859fa0033c3d9966d2660239a0eed0/03_SM_09_Astro.gif)
![Protecting, 2021Digital Photography From the chapter Mother Earth / Matriarch](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74d10161d1ffbc7b6563e450e6c2a878aff48f4aabb051349bf0cbaf85bb6673/03_SM_14.jpg)
![The Seed, 2021Digital photographyFrom the chapter: Mother Earth / Matriarch](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/342bd619fc7aecb24198bb2dd89d338fd499ca25f1fd13c4b42603a2959a4a81/03_SM_12.jpg)
![The Shoe that Crossed the Border, 2021Digital Photography From the chapter Mother Earth / Matriarch](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8339e03a6e3bb9a9a79715e9d5ba3ddce20387919d8e6618827c28b944298842/03_SM_13.jpg)
Exhibitions
Brotes
Sankalpa, Madrid, 2022
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This Was the Year That Was
ICP, OYC Online Student Show, 2021
This Was the Year That Was features work by ICP's One-Year Certificate students in Creative Practices and Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism representing a range of visual media from photography to mixed media. The exhibition is co-curated by ICP faculty member Marvin Heiferman and the one-year certificate program chairs Karen Marshall and Darin Mickey. View the virtual showcase.
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