Eliazar Ortíz Roa

(Dominican Republic | 1981)

Eliázar Ortiz’s career has focused on the human body and language, addressing issues such as slavery, gender identity and violence, masculinity, inequality, decolonization, and historical reparation, and recovering the legacy and memory of the Afro-Caribbean cultures. His interest in ethnobotany and sustainability leads him to create his own organic pigments and paper, thus incorporating the environment into his artistic practice. His works depict naked bodies as acts of insurrection, confrontation, or communion of the body with nature, intervened by their symbolic language based on native languages and mythologies.