Photo credits: Martin Seck
“I am interested in the way we mourn and venerate. Veneration and mourning serve as exercises in memory, and they also show us where we place value in our lives. We mourn those who were special to us and we honor their memory through a variety of rituals in order to not forget them. My practice explores the idea of memory and value as it relates to the larger structures that cause us to mourn or venerate. I contextualize my own experiences of growing up Queer/Trans in the diaspora within the systems that have informed my experience, such as: religious institutions, the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, anti-Queer legislation, and more. These larger structures are often incorporated through material or archival relationships, such as currency, photographs, and sound.”
gino romero (b. 1997 in Miami, Florida) holds an MFA Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design and a BA in Studio Art from Florida State University. They are an ordained minister, an archivist, an educator, and they consider growing up Queer and Trans in predominantly Latinx spaces as part of their education.
Their work has been exhibited nationally at venues, including the Phyllis Strauss Gallery, Florida State University’s College of Medicine, Tally Zine Fest, Gallery 208, Museum of Fine Arts, Goddess Lounge, 621 Gallery, Also Gallery, Wonderville, Grace Exhibition Space, SoMad Gallery, Rosekill Art Farm, and Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery. Their work is part of the collections at Cornell University, Tufts University, Trinity College, and more.