LOS ANGELES—On Friday, July 10, 2009 from 7:00-11:00PM, Galerie Lakaye hosts a multimedia exhibition featuring body ornamentation with the jagua fruit on live, semi-nude models, as wells as photography and a short film by Pascal Giacomini, a French Los Angeles-based sculptor and photographer, who documented his recent trip to the Peruvian Amazon. The film will be projected on a large screen and shown on a loop in the gallery’s backyard. Also on display will be rare artifacts from the Matsés People of Peru.
Jagua is a fruit used by indigenous people in the Amazon for body ornamentation. It stains the skin blue/black, looks just like a real tattoo, only it disappears after two weeks. It is the hottest new trend in body art. (See recent coverage on NBC here.) Three artists—Ayesha Muhammad, Bakari Santos and Morena Santos—will offer temporary jagua tattoos all evening.
Galerie Lakaye, a gallery of contemporary ethnic art, has operated out of a classic Craftsman bungalow in Hollywood for nineteen years. It is located at 1550 N. Curson Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046. For more information, please contact Owner Carine Fabius at galerie_lakaye@pacbell.net or call 323-460-7333. Contact number night of event: 323-876-6919.
** The gallery owners were responsible for introducing the henna tattoo craze to Los Angeles back in 1997.
