ABOUT THE Work

In Car Without Parts, Ibarra pushes a car shrouded in gold fabric on the streets of West Oakland. In rethinking Deleuze and Guattari’s concept Body without Organs, I consider the depth of the object, the car, well beyond its surface and sheen towards its depth, particularly the libidinal attachments Black and Latino men have to such objects. Rather than presume the car similar to the body as a whole machine, I reconfigure the object as “without parts” (nor organs) to denaturalize connections between race and visuality; gender and objects; and capital and politics.