Porfirio Gutiérrez

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Based in California, Zapotec artist Porfirio Gutiérrez creates work that explores the contemporary and evolving experience of Native Americans. He maintains the ancestral practice of processing and dyeing with cochineal for his woven artworks, reinterpreting his inherited weaving language by subverting and re-imagining its symbols and forms to create a contemporary indigenous identity. For BTB, Porfirio presents a deeply personal installation in which body, land, labour and ancestral knowledge are inextricable.