Karla Hiraldo Voleau

You Can Have it All

Karla Hiraldo Voleau uses the means of photography and performance to radically examine her own body, intimacy, and desire. Autobiographical events often form the starting point for a relentless self-interrogation. You Can Have It All (2019, 2024) takes a letter the artist wrote to her five-year-older self as an opportunity to reflect on love relationships, self-acceptance, and emancipation from social expectations. In the form of a visual diary, the artist documents a solo trip to Greece and uses the performative appropriation of her own appearance to address and free herself from the suffering caused by body dysmorphia.

The second part of the work, which can be read as a response to her younger self, documents the healing process five years later, following the failure of a love relationship. The practice of various transformative and spiritual rituals becomes a zone of confrontation and offers an opportunity to face one’s emotions and fears. By incorporating these practices, the photo series also gives new visibility to lost knowledge, often vilified as witchcraft, in the spirit of feminist empowerment.

– Jana H. Haeckel

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): 111 – Christophe Guye Galerie — 111

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Yo Soy El Pilar De Mi Vida – Christophe Guye Galerie — Yo Soy El Pilar De Mi Vida

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Another Angle – Christophe Guye Galerie — Another Angle

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Beachbutt – Christophe Guye Galerie — Beachbutt

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Bellyhead – Christophe Guye Galerie — Bellyhead

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Crash – Christophe Guye Galerie — Crash

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Define yourself outside of pain or men – Christophe Guye Galerie — Define yourself outside of pain or men

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): I let go of – Christophe Guye Galerie — I let go of

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): In return for everything – Christophe Guye Galerie — In return for everything

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Mi trovo strana – Christophe Guye Galerie — Mi trovo strana

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Millis out – Christophe Guye Galerie — Millis out

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Mirrors – Christophe Guye Galerie — Mirrors

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Nipple – Christophe Guye Galerie — Nipple

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Rrrraw – Christophe Guye Galerie — Rrrraw

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Santorini – Christophe Guye Galerie — Santorini

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Snatching oranges – Christophe Guye Galerie — Snatching oranges

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): The hand – Christophe Guye Galerie — The hand

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): The one tree – Christophe Guye Galerie — The one tree

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): TV – Christophe Guye Galerie — TV

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican): Tus putas ortigas – Christophe Guye Galerie — Tus putas ortigas