This series is regarding the use of pink as empowerment, transgression, and breaking norms. The first two depict women that I don’t know but I saw the potential to show the fierce of being woman even with feminine clothing and accessories. The third is inspired by Sophia Coppola, a director who I considered key for showing women’s stories through a feminist lens. I see this work that through those things that are so culturally attached to women, we can use them as a force for uprise.
 
Magaly Vega-Lopez was born in Mexico City in 1986. She is a visual storyteller who uses counter-narratives to start a dialogue on the violent acts of reality and pursues possible social healing through art. She likes the idea of creating fictions that play with the "real". Stories that we can relate to, between the familiar and the oddness, she plays—creating new worlds that seem familiar but unrecognizable at the same time. She uses art as a way to honor stories. Using her heritage to re-imagine the past and always think of art as a social act rather than an individual practice.
 
61 cm x 45.72 cm or 24" x 19"
oil on archival film polyester
 
Individual works are $850 each.