Bassam review 2

Students will create a 1 page-long typed response to one of three review prompts. Responses must be in MLA format.

Purpose:

Explore in writing what you have read/watched and what we have presented in the modules.

Instructions:

No Citations; this is purely based on your knowledge.

Restate the chosen topic/question in the first few sentences of your response.

Topic/Questions:

Compare and Contrast two works from Weeks 3-4. Focus on symbols, archetypes, and universal themes.

No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop

Pepn Osorio, En la barbera no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop)
by DR. MAYA JIMNEZ

The Puerto Rico born artist Pepn Osorio trained as a sociologist and became a social worker in the South Bronx. His work is inspired by each of these experiences and is rooted in the spaces, experiences, and people of American Latino culture, particularly Nuyorican communities. Osorios large-scale installations are meant for a local audience, yet they have also been exhibited in mainstream cultural institutions (though after the 1993 Whitney Biennial, Osorio vowed to show his work first within the community, and then elsewhere).

Pepn Osorio, No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop (En la barbera no se llora), 1994 (New Museum installation, 2023), mixed media with barber chairs, photographs, objects, and video, variable dimensions (Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Pepn Osorio

Nuyorican

Puerto Rico is a United States territory. Its residents are United States citizens and carry an American passport, yet they cannot vote in presidential elections or have representatives voting for their interests in Washington, D.C. This sense of marginality is further complicated when one considers that Nuyoricans often retain a distinct sense of cultural pride that is informed by their dual American and Puerto Rican identities.

Having lived both experiencesthat of a Puerto Rican and NuyoricanOsorio is best known for large-scale installations that address street life, cultural clashes, and the rites of passage experienced by Puerto Ricans in the United States. Outside the traditional museum setting, and commissioned by Real Art Ways (RAW) from Hartford, Connecticut, En la barbera no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) is a mixed-media installation first exhibited in the Puerto Rican community of Park Street in Hartford. Created in collaboration with local residents, Osorio engaged the public through conversation, workshops, and artistic collaborations. The art itself is visually lavishhis installations have often been dubbed Nuyorican Baroque (a reference to the 17th-century style characterized by theatricality and opulence and found in both Europe and Latin America).

Masculinity

Inspired from his first haircut in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Osorio recreates the space of the barbershop as one that is intensely packed with masculine symbols like barber chairs, car seats, sports paraphernalia, depictions of sperm and a boys circumcision, phallic symbols, and male action figurines. Osorio boldly challenges the idea of masculinity, and particularly of machismo, in Latino communities.

Barber chair with chucheras, Pepn Osorio, No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop (En la barbera no se llora), 1994 (New Museum installation, 2023), mixed media with barber chairs, photographs, objects, and video, variable dimensions (Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Pepn Osorio

Chucheras

Spanish for trinkets or knick-knacks, and known to art historians as kitsch, chucheras overpopulate Osorios work. These include Puerto Rican flags, religious ornaments, plastic toys, dolls, ribbons, beads, etc., all of which functionto quote art historian Anna Indych-Lpezas a gesture of cultural resistance, presented as something universal yet personal. [1] The chucheras included in the installation En la barbera no se llora, (a flag, fake foliage, baseballs, framed portraits of famous Latin American and Latino men), serve to localize the work, yet these objects also raise issues of social class expressed here through taste, and the distinction between high and low arteffectively straddling a fine line between cultural celebration and social critique.

Video

One prominent aspect of En la barbera no se llora are the video installations featuring Latino men from Park Street in stereotypically masculine poses. The men vary in age. Osorio included older men from the retirement home, Casa del Elderly, presenting the issue of machismo as multi-generational and deeply ingrained in Nuyorican culture. As a foil to this construction, the artist also included videos of men crying, with the public reacting both in sympathy and disgust.

These same men then participated in workshops, in which they discussed how notions of masculinity had shaped their personal relationships as brothers, husbands, and fathers. Despite this participation of men, most of the visitors to the barbershop installation were, in fact, women. [2]

While En la barbera no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) challenges definitions of masculinity, it also brings upin a more subtle waythe relationship between machismo and homophobia, violence, and infidelity, and the ways in which popular culture, religion, and politics help craft these identities and issues.

[1] Anna Indych-Lpez, Nuyorican Baroque: Pepn Osorios Chucheras, Art Journal, volume 60, number 1 (2001), p. 75.

[2] Erika Suderburg, Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), p. 323.

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