Daniela Ortiz

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Daniela Ortiz (Cusco, Perú, 1985) lives and works in Barcelona. Her work aims to generate visual narratives where the concepts of nationality, racialization, social class and gender are critically understood to analyze colonial, capitalist and patriarchal power. Her recent projects address the European system of immigration control and its link to colonialism and the legal mechanisms created by European institutions to exert violence against migrant and racialized people. In addition, she has developed several projects on the Peruvian upper class and its exploitive relationship with domestic workers. Recently, she has focused again on the visual and manual fields, working on ceramics, collage, drawing and formats as children’s books, trying to move away from the Eurocentric conceptual aesthetics. Apart from her artistic work, she is also mother of a three-year-old girl and participates in talks, workshops, discussions and fights against institutional racism and the European immigration control system.