Yvette Mayorga

Yvette Mayorga. The Lovers Dance, 2024. The Lovers Dance is Yvette Mayorga's first augmented reality public work. Drawing from the stories and shapes of her intricately piped paintings and public installations, Mayorga creates an immersive, interactive experience that reflects her signature feminine world-building. In The Lovers Dance she explores themes of belonging and love by depicting two dancers emerging from the sky, against a backdrop of piped frosted clouds reminiscent of a theatrical stage set. , , The dancers engage in a delicate performance, attempting to meet but quickly pulling back, a metaphor for physical and metaphorical borders to symbolize the tension of desire and separation that recurs in Mayorga's work. The Lovers Dance is inspired by 18th-century paintings based on ancient mythological narratives depicting love and leisure, such as the story of Apollo and Daphne. Mayorga's reimagined dancers are dressed in a hybrid of Rococo and contemporary attire, featuring pointed boots, gilded dresses, and cartoon character balloons, as they ascend into the sky. , , Yvette Mayorga (b. 1991) is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist known for her Rococo-inspired reliefs that merge confectionary labor with found images to explore themes of belonging. Dominated by the color pink, Mayorga celebrates femme power while questioning the allure of consumer culture and the American Dream as a first-generation Latinx.