Discipline

Natalia Ortega Gamez's practice is focused on the use and integration of nature, clay and natural fabrics in installations, sculptures, and design pieces through the project Los Tejedores, which is co-directed by Ortega Gamez and Ricardo Ariel Toribio. This sculpture is based on her research and her work on artisanal production in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, to develop a piece that integrates the whip as a multi-use domestic object, both fly killer and object of desire. The piece is part of a series of the same name that touches on themes of power and submission; about the punished and the punisher; in that being from the Caribbean means constantly feeling whipped.