‘The world is a spectacle. Face, dress and voice are contrived. All sit in judgment, unable to break their stare, using morality to deceive until the self is no more.’
Edition of 12. Plate 6 from the series The Caprichos. Inscribed in the plate top right: ‘6’; titled in the plate lower center: ‘Nobody knows themself.’. Numbered, signed, and dated in pencil.
The Caprichos, by Emily Lombardo, is a series of etchings which are in direct conversation and homage to Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos, 1799. Both reveal the dark underbelly of cultural movements which ultimately serve to divide society across economic, racial, political, religious, and gender lines. Lombardo brings these issues into contemporary light through a queer feminist lens.
This edition was published by Childs Gallery and printed at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Norwalk, CT) by printer Opal Ecker DeRuvo. Hahnemühle Copperplate Bright White paper and Portland Black ink where used for this edition.
