TIL WE ARE FULL
claudia hermano
at Alpaca

Opening reception: April 12, 6-9pm
Closing reception: May 3, 6-9pm

TIL WE ARE FULL explores body size, gender, and race as social constructs. hermano uses photography, sculpture, and poetry to articulate the messiness of corporeality and question the authenticity of body and self. As a fat, mixed-race, trans person, hermano was taught to separate self from my body; this work blurs the lines between sculptural and biological body, extending identity to fabric, flesh, paper, and earth. 

claudia hermano (they/them) is a fat, non-binary, filipino-american artist working primarily in photography and sculpture. Their practice revolves around gaze, recognizing that much can be revealed through the ways we look at each other. Their work is predominantly centered on body politics, specifically trans and queer narratives. They use portraiture to document the intricate relationships within themselves and with others.

They tell stories that resonate with broader conversations about identity, visibility, and human experience. The concept of identity as a construct is a throughline of their work. In their most recent work, hermano turns self portraits into three-dimensional body objects, then rephotographs themselves interacting with those objects.