In this episode of ‘Inner Worlds’, the Mexican artist invites us into her studio, located in the neighbourhood where she grew up. She views her lush garden atelier and the bustling barrio outside as a place to harvest ideas about identity, decolonial thinking and forms of resistance

“‘My paintings invite you to take control, to take power, to experience living.’”

The representations seen in her work, which combine painting, embroidery, and installation elements, often serve as coded messages for the acceleration of capitalist systems, the Western canonical traditions of painting, or the creation of Queer utopias. Cars are especially prominent: these, she says, are a metaphor for navigating the experience of ‘us queer people, us people of color, within the system that obviously doesn't want the best for us.’