Luisé Cisneros

I am a non-binary Mexican-Canadian artist who explores my identity as an immigrant with a mixed race heritage and my relation to Mexican diaspora living in Toronto and Belleville. One way to explore my identity is to create works where I question the body and gender politics of these two countries. With these artworks, I want to confront the otherism of gender/body and its relations with social constructs in public and privet spaces. I also question social constructs that are part of the colonial legacy that have affected me such as gender performativity, language legacy and racial bias. My intention with my art practice is to criticize the barriers, discrimination, and violence that I faced as a BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ+ individual living in the diaspora, but also to celebrate my Mexican heritage and its cultural traditions and my identity as a Canadian immigrant.