Carmen Reeves
An Exploration of Identity
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Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist Carmen Reeves believes in the importance of self reflection on identity and beliefs. Before graduating from UCLA with a bachelor degree in the arts with honors, Carmen graduated high school from a psychiatric residential facility. During that time she experienced losing and regaining reality, black outs, catatonic episodes, transphobia, and much more. These experiences help form her thought process into understanding who she really is. Her practice delves into the philosophical ideology of a rhizomatic thought process into realm of Identity. She also focuses her process into bringing a new perspective on mental illness and psychiatric disability.
Who is Carmen
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Some of her works
Here you will see some of the more pivotal works in her portfolio.
New Age Metal: A Balance of a Psychotic Life, 2022
This work is about how balancing and managing life as a person who lives with schizophrenia at times can feel overwhelming but comes together to function in your own way. This is done through making my own sound piece through graphic notation and playing it on DIY made instruments.
My Psychotic Stay, 2022
The purpose of this painting installation is to bring the viewer into the memories of Carmen and to have them confront what it means to live through losing reality.
An Exploration 9, 2023
This work focuses on exploring the concept of visualizing what it means and feels like to deal delusional thoughts of grandeur.
An Exploration 2, 2023
This work focuses on exploring the concept and thought process of dissociative black outs and what it visual represents.
Exploration 1, 2023
An exploration of my journey of my life to the point of making in the winter of 2023. This piece focuses on the whole of my journey and captures the over all chaos and balance my life has been through abuse, transphobia, ableism and psychiatric institutions.
How do you view me?
This performance piece challenges the audience on the question of how they would view me if they saw me in psychosis to how they view me as an artist. To make them view there own thought process and view point of mental illness.
other works
Contact
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Email:
carm99@ucla.edu
Phone:
+1(661)476-6943