Whole Lotta Pain by Pedro Vélez“Self-deprecation is a hilarious joke in Did you hate me? Did you love me? I did it for you! (2010-12), a multimedia installation composed of large photographs, video documentation, a book and other ephemera by the locally celebrated Trance Líquido blogger and artist Lilliam Nieves. Presented on tiny screens, the videos show extreme close-ups of Nieves torturing her Savillesque body by stabbing it with red lipstick and sticky paper that shoots from a price gun.”
Full article: Artnet.com
Comment: Lilliam Nieves, Angeli Vélez and Catherine Matos; 3 powerful artists from Puerto Rico. Review on artnet by Pedro Velez. (Dear english speaking friends, you don’t need to use the google translator for this one) by Karla Marie Ostolaza.
