Bolivia // London
I am a Bolivian visual artist and PhD researcher based in London. My practice explores alternative ways of representing Indigeneity in the Andes, focusing on care, relationality, and visual sovereignty. From my position as an Indigenous woman, I approach the racialised body as a living archive shaped by histories of rebellion, violence, and resistance.
My work brings together photography, collage, handmade artist books, and installation. In Imprecise Cartography, supported by the Spanish Government AECID, I used photography and video to reflect on changing realities of Indigenous communities in the American Chaco, exhibiting the work in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Spain. During an art residency in eastern lowland Bolivia, I developed In Between, a video installation exploring the oppressive conditions faced by Indigenous women, later presented at Birkbeck’s Institute for the Moving Image. More recent projects include Tsháiek y Nróik and Aesthetics of Poverty shared and exhibited at the Tate Exchange programme and Galerie Rivoli 59 in Paris.
My practice is grounded in photography as a relational process rather than a fixed object. I work across photography, collage, handmade artist books and installation to explore how images are shaped by collaboration, live experience and situated knowledge. My work emerges from long-term engagement with topics of race and representation of Indigeneity, where I question dominant narratives embedded in visual representation and propose alternative views.
I see Indigeneity as an opportunity to build a global political agenda that contests coloniality and discriminatory discourses, while opening new perspectives for understanding contemporary Indigenous identities. I explore the space of the chola, as an alternative political space to explore contemporary identities of indigeneity. A recurring figure in my work is the Andean chola, understood not as a static identity but as an active visual and political presence that unsettles distinctions between tradition and modernity, Indigeneity and urban life. Through slow, tactile processes such as folding, layering and sequencing, I seek to resist extractive modes of image-making and open up more intimate ways of encountering photographs.
Handmade artist books play a central role in my practice. They function as both artworks and research tools, allowing images to circulate through touch, rhythm and repetition rather than linear storytelling. Across my work, I am interested in creating spaces where photography becomes a shared process of reflection, negotiation and resistance, rooted in lived experience and collective making.
