Rafa Esparza
United States American Artist- Performance Art, Endurance Art
Rafa Esparza is a multidisciplinary artist who was born, raised, and is currently living in Los Angeles. Woven into Esparza’s bodies of work are his interest in history, personal narratives, and kinship. He is inspired by his own relationship to colonization and the disrupted genealogies that come forth as a result. Using live performance as his main form of inquiry, Esparza employs site-specificity, materiality, memory and (non)documentation as primary tools to interrogate and critique ideologies, power structures and binaries that problematize the “survival” process of historicized narratives and the environments wherein people are left to navigate and socialize. (Queer Art)
More Information
- Wikipedia
- Artist Work: Bust
- Queer Art Artist desciption
- Art News – article
- Staring at the Sun – artist work
- cumbre: look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west – artist work
- Cumbre – video of work
