In collaboration with Zeitz MOCAA
Date: 8th July 2025
Time: 17:00
Venue: The CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab, 66 Greatmore Street,
Woodstock (Enter via Regent Road)
SPEAKER BIO
Federico Cuatlacuatl (b.1991, San Francisco Coapan, Cholula, Puebla -México). Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Virginia. Cuatlacuatl’s aesthetic oeuvre addresses Nahua Indigenous immigration, social art practice, and cultural sustainability.
Building on his own experience as an undocumented immigrant and DACA holder, his creative practice collides Indigeneity and immigration. At the core of his most recent research and artistic production is the intersection of transborder Indigeneity, migrant Indigenous diasporas, and Nahua futurisms. Federico Cuatlacuatl visually delineates migration and displacement while smuggling acts of self-preservation, rematriation, and resistance. He smuggles Nahua Mexican traditions and culture to the United States, reclaiming his ancestral Nahua lineage, land, and language. As a DACAmented member of the Nahua community, Cuatlacuatl’s work is shaped by the colonial marginalization and disenfranchisement faced by indigenous communities in México while being deeply rooted in challenging socio-political and economic relations between México and the United States.