Self Portraits

Larissa Negrón, 2021

New York-based artist Larissa De Jesùs Negrón wants her audience to be “shocked by the absurdity and uneasiness” of her imagery. But, and perhaps more importantly, she also wants them to “feel strangely understood by it,” she indicates. Larissa’s hypnotic depictions of naked female bodies, distressed faces and eerie bathroom scenes are all a way for her to accept, overcome and represent her personal experience with trauma. Yet with her powerful representation of the difficulties and damaging expectations of contemporary womanhood, her work also speaks to a shared female experience.