NADA House 2023

A larger than life-sized sculpture by Luis Sahagun, “Lo Que Grita Mi Piel (That Which My Skin Screams),” is an anticolonial wearable sculpture that doubles as a surrogate ancestor and functions as a 3-dimensional topographical map exposing spiritual wounds inflicted by war and conquest.

The piece interrogates how the same symbols that have been used as tools of oppression can also be used to spotlight and celebrate the indigenous survival that has always been present alongside efforts at domination, leading us to a vision of how ancestral wisdom can support radical culture change in the here and now.