This performance is purification ritual from hidden self inflicted harm in romantic situations disguised as beauty.
Gilda Tenopala Gutiérrez is a Mexican (1996) interdisciplinary post-colonial ecofeminist/animist artist based in Fayetteville AR. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a concentration in ceramics (2020) and is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture and Experimental Media at the University of Arkansas (2027). Tenopala Gutiérrez was Awarded as an Artist Member by the James Renwick Alliance of American Craft (2020). She researches the spiritual, natural, historical, chemical and physical use of wild and industrial nature. Exploring the possibility to reconnect with the spirit of all things by creating experiences, spaces and objects that serve as foregrounds to fulfill biological and ecological cycles. Her practice includes, ceramics, textiles, installation art, metalsmithing, time-based media, ready-mades, drawing, collage, photo-sculpture and writing . artist website
