Daniela Ortiz
I think that my work is not a unique thought instead my works respond to collective political processes in which for many years there has been a genealogy of the collapse of monuments as an anti-colonial action in uprising processes, like the one that is taking place now.
Through her work, Daniela Ortiz (Peru, 1985) aims to generate visual narratives in which the concepts of nationality, racialization, social class and genre are explored so as to critically understand structures of colonial, patriarchal and capitalist power. Her recent projects and research deal with the European migratory control system, its links to colonialism and the legal structure created by European institutions in order to inflict violence on racialized and migrant communities. She has also developed projects about the Peruvian upper class and its exploitative relationship with domestic workers. Recently, her artistic practice has reverted to visual and manual work, developing artworks in ceramic, collage and formats such as children’s books in order to shift away from the aesthetics of Eurocentric conceptual art.
