En la Barberia no se LLoraBy: Alejandro Lugo

Artist Pepón Osorio

born 1955 Santruce, Puerto Rico Latino artist educated at the Universidad Inter-Americana Lehman College Graduated from Columbia University Currently teaches at Temple University

Content

Version of a Puerto Rican Barber shop

All male barbershop A place where young boys are told

not to cry for their first haircut Vehicle to look at masculinity

Patron/Site

The project was installed in a vacant store

Summer of 1994 Located at Real Art Ways, Hartford,

Connecticut At opening community barbers offered

free haircuts

Scale

Little space Simply built in a vacant

building Size of small barber

shop

Purpose/Style

"In 'No Crying Allowed in the Barber Shop,' it’s not so much about beauty but the contradictions of beauty. It’s an installation that you’re allowed to come into so that you’re surrounded by its seduction. But it’s also about the contradiction of male and female...the balance that it exist within the male and the female in all of us. It’s contradictory because when you come in, you expect to see a joyous celebration, but you also see a lot of men crying in the presence of a general public.”- Pepón Osorio

Elements Photographs of Latin men lined the walls potency powder was 'for sale' in display cases scenes of men playing a baby being circumcised men crying The ceilings were silkscreened from enlarged

photos of microscopic human sperm A fish tank held a scene from the Last Supper

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My Beating Heart

2000

speakers with sound,

archival paper

fiber glass

72 x 65 inches in diameter

Explores emotional issues through visual means

Other Artworks

Face to Face

exact replica of a white-collar office

positions the viewer within the environment of the Department of Community and Human Services

Examines how some needs are never attended to because of the restrictions of an eight-hour workday

reveals the conflict that exists between workers' rights, which are best protected by unions, and individuals' rights, which are often not protected by anyone.