Profile
Daniela Ortiz is an artist based in Peru. Through her work, Daniela develops visual narratives and pedagogical tools that explore the concepts of nationality, racialisation, social class, and gender in order to critically understand the structures of colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist power from an anti-imperialist perspective.
She has dedicated her practice to exposing the European migration control system, its links to colonialism, and the ways institutional racism is used to inflict violence on migrant communities and racialized working-class populations, while making visible the forms of resistance that emerge against these systems. Since her return to Peru, Daniela's work has focused on internationalist solidarity, care as a political practice, mechanisms of repression and persecution through anti-terrorist policies, and the anti-imperialist revolutionary processes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In her early practice, she produced works on the Peruvian upper class, its exploitative relationship with domestic workers, and the role of the ruling elites in the mining industry.
In recent years, Daniela's practice has returned to manual and figurative techniques, developing works across painting, ceramics, collage, drawing, children's books, theatre, and puppet theatre.
Besides her artistic practice, Daniela is the mother of three children. She lectures and leads workshops internationally while maintaining a deep commitment to the anti-imperialist struggle and to the revolutionary processes of the peoples of Latin America.
