Alejandra Arias Sevilla

My work unravels the interconnection of language, domestic spaces, and personal history to examine how they affect the understanding of my surroundings. Growing up as a young girl in Mexico, much of the phraseology incubated an uncomfortableness within me, to what I would now describe as a nuanced vicious circularity; a language capable of ebullience yet dominance. Within its patois, I resonated with the familiar but it required me to assert plurality to masculinity, were it communicates my domesticity, the declaration of my body as object, and subserviency. Within “” I am observing the Spanish that knits my cultural identity as a response to how I navigate my surroundings and my interpersonal relationships. My motivation is to deshilar the notion that language is pure and concrete; I am investigating and imagining how a simple change of a vowel can dislocate the cultural paradigms that continue to incubate violence, and give way to engage in discussing power, and gender dynamics through a nuanced lens.