María Antonia Eguiarte Souza
[Image description: A color portrait of artist Maria Antonia Eguiarte Souza, a dark-haired, light-skinned woman wearing a black shirt with a red tattoo encircling her left arm just above the crook of her elbow. She lays on a cream colored couch with several pillows, covered by a gray blanket, in front of a blank white wall. The artist hides half of her face behind her forearm but looks directly into the lens of the camera.] Photo: Natalie Schoenbrunner
María Antonia Eguiarte Souza was born in 1993 in Lansing, Michigan. She was raised by Valeria Souza and Luis Eguiarte as well as Guadalupe Espinosa in Mexico City. She holds an BFA from La Escuela Nacional de Pintura Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City and an MFA from UCSD
Since the start of her artistic exploration, Antonia has been drawn to vulnerability and care as radical political weapons for quiet gestural revolution. This has been the main focus of her practice as a facilitator and artist. Her gesture-based performance and object-making center on the possibilities of a transnational body that carries multigenerational knowledge of care. Using textiles, fibers and threads she draws from personal narrative, family and nation myths, non-linear and anti-hierarchical ways of knowledge, to disrupt her relationship with care, community and self.
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