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Xandra Ibarra, a.k.a La Chica Boom, is an Oakland-based performance artist. Her work has been exhibited at the Eli Broad Museum, the De Young Museum, and blah blah blah.

Nude Laughing
Xandra Ibarra performed Nude Laughing at the Eli Broad Museum in Los Angeles, using nudity to explore ties between bodies, "whiteness" and womanhood. The piece is drawn from John Currin's 1998 painting titled "Laughing Nude," which features a nude white woman with her face caught in the middle of maniacal laughter that blurs the erotic with the grotesque. In an email to The Huffington Post, Ibarra explains "I want to capture what I can of these white nudes in my brown figure and skin and enact a union between sound and gesture that can't be captured within a painting." She aims to bring the nudes to life in what she describes as the "wrong" body, enhancing the grotesque, tactile, and expressive dimensions of how she imagines white womanhood.

Untitled Fucking ( A Collaboration)
In their 2013 video Untitled Fucking, Xandra Ibarra and performance artist Amber Hawk Swanson capture feminism's ambivalent and decidedly sticky relationship to racialized sexual politics.