Daniela Ortiz

Peru. 1985

Lives and works in Urubamba

Daniela Ortiz is a Peruvian artist who, through her work, seeks to generate visual narratives and pedagogical tools that analyze the concepts of nationality, racialization, social class, and gender in order to critically understand colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist power structures from an anti-imperialist perspective.

She has dedicated her practice to denouncing the European system of migration control, its links to colonialism and the reinforcement of institutional racism to impose violence on migrant communities and racialized working classes, while her work vindicates resistance against it. Since her return to Peru, she has carried out work related to internationalist solidarity, care in a political sense, the mechanisms of repression and persecution through “anti-terrorist” policies, as well as anti-imperialist revolutionary processes.

In her early days, Ortiz produced various works on the Peruvian upper class and its exploitative relationship with domestic workers, as well as the role of the elites in the mining sector. Recently, her artistic work has returned to focusing on the visual and manual, creating works in ceramics, collage, drawing and formats such as children's books with the intention of moving away from Eurocentric conceptual aesthetics.

In addition to her work, Daniela is a mother of three children, gives talks, workshops, and participates in various debates and struggles against the colonial order.

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