Dell Alvarado - Layú biza’bi - Promised Land
19 x 27.5"
Earth pigment, soot, and ink on cotton paper
2023
Visual Artist from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. She places her work within the contemporary, reflecting on a concern for her cultural identity, collective memory, and her mother tongue, the Zapotec. Since 2016 she has collaborated with the Gubidxa Gallery located in her community. Her work reflects on the idea of identity and how we build experiences from daily life and the collective. Intervention and appropriation are part of her process to highlight the traditional from the contemporary. She also proposes questions about the sense of belonging and the construction of space and how it is formed through collective memory, attachment, affective ties, and all the objects with which we build our identity.
Dell Alvarado - Layú biza’bi - Promised Land
19 x 27.5"
Earth pigment, soot, and ink on cotton paper
2023
Visual Artist from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. She places her work within the contemporary, reflecting on a concern for her cultural identity, collective memory, and her mother tongue, the Zapotec. Since 2016 she has collaborated with the Gubidxa Gallery located in her community. Her work reflects on the idea of identity and how we build experiences from daily life and the collective. Intervention and appropriation are part of her process to highlight the traditional from the contemporary. She also proposes questions about the sense of belonging and the construction of space and how it is formed through collective memory, attachment, affective ties, and all the objects with which we build our identity.