Stitched Flesh, Worked Desire          

This vertical installation brings together Indigenous women’s textile labour, queer performance, and material practices of discipline and exposure. Two handwoven fajas by Tz’utujil Maya sisters Oralia Chopén and Rosa Chopén, produced through the TRAMA Textiles cooperative, form the structural axis of the display. Their weaving carries intergenerational knowledge sustained through violence, displacement, and collective rebuilding in the aftermath of genocide. Interwoven alongside these textiles are photographs by Mexican photographer Rodrigo Vázquez, depicting performer Rubber Devil wearing leather gear by Uriel Urbán.

On top, a series of Mischief Fanny Flags by Cree artist Kent Monkman continue to treat kink, leather, and queer embodiment as parallel forms of skilled labour and cultural production. Together, these works refuse to separate labour from pleasure, insisting instead on their shared stakes in Indigenous survival, authorship, and self-determination.