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Compiling unreleased photographs from various series, this chorus of portraits emanates with the light found in individuals who—as the gender-non-conforming poet and performer Alok Menon once characterized Falquez’s subjects—“Manifest the Impossible.” Cloaked with raw silk dyed in brilliant colors, Falquez transforms the symbol of draped fabric in Western historical painting into a new visual language, liberating, expanding, and re-framing notions of power and beauty in art history. Through her research, Falquez explores how fabric in European painting was used as an emblem of wealth, …