Freddie Mercado disrupting some Puerto Rican “Femme Fatale” notions.

 

Here are some examples of a Contemporary Puerto Rican Artist that I favor.  His message loud and clear “all identities are fictitious.”  He reevaluates Female characters both historical and fictional, obscured or devalued by the colonial-historical establishment. He brings to live, characters such as “La Madama,” or “La Dama de Las Camelias,” Or Feliza Ricon de Gautier, a feminist activist to become the first female Mayor of San Juan and the first of a Capital City in the Americas. He gives new meaning to the concept of beauty, both perceived and projected and disputes defaming notions often surrounding afro-Caribbean or indigenist personalities.