The body as a possibility.
What is told from, through and in the body.
My practice is a sustained escape. An investigation in and from the body to break free from the colonial architectures of race, gender and knowledge. Here, movement, image and words are tools to unlearn the impose gesture, reclaim the mestiza rhythm and mobilize the memories that power seeks to erase.
Playing with identity, rhythm, dreams and disillusion; becoming every time less and less human.
Gabriel Zúñiga
My artistic research is an exercise of bodily and epistemological marronage.
I mobilize the body as the primary territory of insubordination. Faced with the colonial gaze that seeks to classify, discipline, and extract, my work executes three escape lines:
Movement: disarticulate inherited gestures to inhabit an animal, porous corporeality that disobeys the codes of gender and race.
Image: construct visual counter-narratives that dismantle official archives and make visible the memories of the body-territory.
Text: write from a mestiza sensibility to name the experiences that hegemonic language silences.
This bodily battlefield. Here, the “dehumanized” is not a negation but a radical affirmation of everything the colonial project labeled as other.
I am grateful for my body and for my agency. I seek to dehumanize my experience in order to escape the system and its colonial and racist gazes. I embrace my animality, imagine possible futures, and play with my body and its meanings.