Boys Can't Drive (2015-2016)

In Boys Can’t Drive, I evoke the male universe by pressing toy cars into  blue Play-Doh and creating digital images on a scanner. Some of the imaginary created are reenactments of real car crashes taken from YouTube and Google images.

The pseudo hieroglyphs that are formed show not just my attempt to navigate in that space but my frustration towards it as well.


"For BCD, blue served as a means to explore a more private realm, that of the domestic sphere and motherhood, where her son’s fascination with cars - his first spoken word being “car” in Spanish  - played out across a gender divide that left Vieira locked out, so-to-speak, and unexpectedly frustrated." Written by Jane Ursula Harris
 

Boys Can't Drive
Cibele Vieira Boys Can't Drive  Pigment Archival Print
One
2015
Pigment Archival Print
10x10 inches

Cibele Vieira Boys Can't Drive  Archival Pigment Print
Two
2015
Archival Pigment Print
10x10 inches
Cibele Vieira Boys Can't Drive  Archival Pigment Print
Three
2015
Archival Pigment Print
10x10 inches
Cibele Vieira Boys Can't Drive  Archival Pigment Print
Crash #3
2015
Archival Pigment Print
20x20 inches
Cibele Vieira Boys Can't Drive  Archival Pigment Print
Crash #6
2016
Archival Pigment Print
10x10 inches
Cibele Vieira Boys Can't Drive  Archival Pigment Print
Crash #4
2016
Archival Pigment Print
20x20 inches
Cibele Vieira Boys Can't Drive  Archival Pigment Print
Crash #1
2015
Archival Pigment Print
33x33 inches
Cibele Vieira Boys Can't Drive  Archival Pigment Print
Crash #2
2015
Archival Pigment Print
20x20 inches
Cibele Vieira Boys Can't Drive  Archival Pigment Print
Crash #7
2015
Archival Pigment Print
33x26 inches
Cibele Vieira Boys Can't Drive  Archival Pigment Print
Shells
2016
Archival Pigment Print
42 x 72 inches
Cibele Vieira Boys Can't Drive
Installation shot at Geranmayeh Gallery, 2016.