María Adela Díaz
Artwork Information
“La Carga/ The Burden”, 2005
Video Performance
3:02 Video
“We Can’t Breath”, 2021
Video Performance
1:03 Video
$2,500
As a migrant woman, I identify my body as a vehicle of support within an empty territory. Through performance, I intensify the notion of strength and burden implied in being both a woman and a mother. In this action, I stage an excessive and almost obsessive act of protecting my naked and defenseless offspring. I turn her into a vulnerable subject by inevitably subjecting her to my own life struggle: crossing difficult paths, unknown territories, and solitary landscapes.
Como mujer migrante, identifico mi cuerpo como un vehículo de soporte en un territorio vacío. A través del performance intensifico la noción de fuerza y de carga que implica ser mujer y ser madre. En esta acción escenifico la entrega excesiva y casi obsesiva de proteger a mi cría desnuda e indefensa. La convierto en sujeto vulnerable al someterla inevitablemente a mi propia batalla de vida: al atravesar caminos difíciles, territorios desconocidos y solitarios.
Artist Statement
Artist Bio
Maria Adela Diaz is a multidisciplinary Latinx artist, born in Guatemala. Diaz uses her body as a medium to convey her political
deceptions, patriarchal, immigration and discriminating philosophies, with performance, installations, and video, her work points out issues that deal with the Latin American diaspora.
Diaz has participated in many art exhibitions worldwide: Centre Pompidou, Paris France, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, México City, Museum of Contemporary Art, San José Costa Rica, Somerset House, London UK, among others.
Diaz lives and works in Los Angeles California. As a Latinx artist, my body inhabited the boundaries between visibility and invisibility,
absence and presence of women in contemporary societies, through related performances, films, and installations, I use performance as my main medium to convey my objections to political deceptions, patriarchal societies, immigration laws, and discriminating philosophies.
My practice engages in a dialogue with the body through collective participation and interaction, investigating the convergence of the simulated, the metaphorical, and corporeal reality.