Yvette Mayorga
#Blessed After The Divine Spouse (El Divino Esposo) ca. 1750 Miguel Cabrera
Acrylic piping on canvas
20” x 24”
2022
Courtesy of the artist and the NMSU Permanent Art Collection

The decadent Rococo characteristics of Yvette Mayorga’s work radiates a superficial innocence. Her DIY aesthetic encourages spectators to scrutinize their complacency in fulfilling the myth of the “American Dream.” Her approach exposes a reality in which the capitalist tendencies of buen gusto (good taste), derived from 19th century Mexican classist appropriations of high French culture, are intercepted by reminders of failed dreams.

This work was installed in Pink Chapel. See Pink Chapel entry for more detail on Mayorga's work.

Las características del rococó decadente de la obra de Yvette Mayorga irradian una inocencia superficial. Su estética DIY (Hazlo Tu Mismo) anima a los espectadores a escudriñar su complacencia al cumplir el mito del “sueño americano”. Su enfoque expone una realidad en la que las tendencias capitalistas del “buen gusto,” derivadas de las apropiaciones clasistas mexicanas del siglo XIX de la alta cultura francesa, son interceptadas por recordatorios de sueños fallidos.