Memory churns the psyche, itself a churn of memories. My multidisciplinary work explores the periphery of interior space once colonized. Nostalgic murmurs, veils, layers and scars approximate the secret crevices lodging the physiological residues of conditioned vulnerability – the emotional gaps and psychological lacunae in which we hide, and heal.      

Adopting a wide array of media – photography, video, fabric collage, installation and experimental painting – I trace the boundaries of genre, using formal devices such as concealment, juxtaposition and projection to comment on the postmodern performativity of race, gender and sexual identity. Born and raised under the vehement repression and strict religiosity of Chile military dictatorship, my work is proudly queer and righteously feminist.  As an interdisciplinary and hybrid practice my work is a commingling of cultures and historical lineages within a transnational feminist frame where the primal impulses of pleasure and violence coevolve. My work confronts the unsung legacy of La Mujerista overshadowed by a matrix of suffocating patriarchal institutions:  Church, State and Global Market Capitalism. It negotiates a new hierarchy of emotional values grounded in the wisdom of indigenous folklore, myth and ritual, women’s crafts, multifarious art lineages, ancestral legends and the revolutionary visioning of Latin American muralism.                                                

Elisa Garcia de la Huerta