Fernando Sanchez on Flavorpill

The performances and video, audio, and sculptural installations of LA-based artist Fernando Sanchez are often as sparse and DIY as it gets; favoring grainy images, unframed photographs, cardboard pedestals, and limited post-production fanciness, Sanchez opts to focus more on the contents' premises and a naughty sense of humor. A perennial subject of his work is the ruthless deconstruction and rampant substitution of identities — for example, students assume the personas of gangsta rappers to examine the nature of power. In the web-based series LA Art Sucks, meanwhile, Sanchez disguised himself as a disgruntled amateur critic and posted his rantings. – Shana Nys Dambrot
http://flavorpill.com/losangeles/events/2009/4/4/fernando-sanchez