Raul Baltazar

 

Raúl Baltazar is an artist who works through aesthetic notions given in Mesoamerican and Western culture. Baltazar often mixes performance, video, photography, drawing, painting, murals and community projects to create new relationships for the decolonial art object. His work is often inspired by the struggles of indigenous Mestizo, Xicanx, POC and Mesoamerican communities and their revolutionary vision of change in the Los Angeles context. In addition, his work postulates responses to trauma and the body, examining the experience and rational abuse of power and authority through sanctioned and unsanctioned reiterations of violence in contemporary life. Baltazar challenges this by engaging in the creation of a contemporary cultural production rooted in an artistic investigation of ancient cultures.  His work opens a space for healing, communication and reflection in order to engage the audience and communicate the value of a self-reflexive identification with indigeneity.