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Daniela Ortiz seeks to generate visual narratives in which the concepts of nationality, racialization, social class and gender are explored in order to critically understand structures of colonial, patriarchal and capitalist power. Her recent projects and research revolve around the European control system, its links to colonialism and the legal structure created by institutions in order to inflict violence against racialized communities. Recently, her artistic practice has turned to visual and manual work, developing artworks in ceramic, collage, and children’s books as an attempt to take a distance from Eurocentric conceptual art aesthetics. She is also mother of a one-year-old and a six-year-old, and an activist and workshop leader around the European migratory control system and institutional racism.