Torita pintada de Morado/Torita Dyed in Purple    

This installation moves through purple as colour, motion, and reclamation. Garments, beadwork, jade, pearls, and masks echo the energy of masked dances once imposed under colonial rule to stage European histories and shame Indigenous and Black bodies. Over time, these dances were taken back, transformed into sites of satire, pleasure, and resistance. The movement of fringe and ribbon recalls the torito pintado, circling, sparkling, refusing stillness. At the left, Nahua artist Juan Carlos Recinos’ Sin traer toros, reinventamos la fiesta marks this shift clearly: the celebration continues without reproducing colonial violence. Here, masquerade becomes authorship. Purple gathers labour, rhythm, and joy as strategies of survival. What was meant to discipline now moves freely, loud and alive.