Embodiment No.1

Denise A. Olivares is a Chilean-born interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montreal). Working across textile and installation, she uses photography as a mnemonic device to trace memory and experience, drawing on her family history. Her performative photography, an evolving and self-directed practice, functions as poiesis, generating a vocabulary of gestures through which she explores identity and hybrid cultural knowledge, reflecting her engagement with Latin American and Latinx cultural histories.