Description
Esperanza Cortés 2012 Ink and beads on handmade paper 18′ x 12″ Signature on back of work Cortés’ artworks, such as “The Giver”, which are organic and improvisational constructions that are infused with hope and renewal. The hand-crafted artworks are poetically and intricately crafted, creating an intimate repository for the individual and collective memory and implement the human body as a symbol and expression of nature, vulnerability and power. The work encourages viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives especially when dealing with the aftermath of Colonialism and raises critical questions about the politics of erasure and exclusion.