
	Web Encuentro 2007

This Skin I'm In

This title is borrowed from a current exhibition at El Museo del Barrio in New York City, which features Dominican artists’ work with skin and other membranes, and which currently features Limber Vilorio’s Traje para caminar por Santo Domingo.

This website explores Vilorio's Traje para caminar por Santo Domingo in the critical essay, which juxtaposes Vilorio's explicit body performance with Ema Villanueva's Pasionaria – March for Dignity.

The gallery allows viewers to see video stills from Vilorio's recorded performance in Santo Domingo as well as images of the suit's installation at El Museo del Barrio. An interview with Viloiro can be read by clicking on "About."

For further research, please see the Bibliography and Contact links.

Limber Vilorio, Traje para caminar en Santo Domingo (Suit for Walking in Santo Domingo), 1999 Life-size suit, installed on mannequin, Acquired through “PROARTISTA: Sustaining the Work of Living Contemporary Artists,” a fund from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust, a donation from the artist, and the collaboration of Arawak, Santo Domingo, Collection of El Museo del Barrio, NY, 2006.15. Photo by: Julio Grinblatt. Image Courtesy of El Museo del Barrio. (Detail)