I’ve always been really drawn to funeral ceremonies, different funeral rites and rituals that vary from country to country. I have been reading some of the best funeral insurance guide and understood how death can occur anytime and we must always be prepared. I started thinking about that process as a kind of death, in a way, and a kind of rebirth. You ask, “Oh, how have I changed in the last 5 years?” You have these moments of assessment where you’re like, “Am I better, am I worse?” You rate yourself, deciding to work on a certain part of yourself in order to become a better person. I’m always in therapy - I love therapy - and I was thinking a lot about how, growing up and aging, we take a look at ourselves, an inventory. Tell us about your piece, “A Funeral For My Selves.”ĬARLA PEREZ-GALLARDO: “A Funeral For My Selves.” I’ve done that piece a few times now, and trying to trace back to the original impetus, I think it was during a period of my life where I was doing a lot of self-reflection. If you’re in the New York area, check out Carla’s work this Sunday, October 5th at the Tatiana Pagés Gallery from 5pm-8pm.īLUNDERBUSS MAGAZINE: Let’s jump right in. We got the chance to talk with Carla about her recent piece “A Funeral For My Selves,” and about her upcoming performance at the Hyperplace Harlem festival.
Placing her own body inside carefully crafted environments, Carla creates art that provokes audiences to join her inside the work, so much so that she’s had to contend with–and incorporate–viewers who lay down beside her on one of her elaborate funeral pyres. For this artist, self-improvement is a kind of death.Īrtist Carla Perez-Gallardo is preoccupied with issues of identity and death, personality and memory, space and our connection to nature and to each other.
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