Exploring issues pertaining to her identity as a Peruvian American artist, Sarah Zapata’s work examines the appropriation of value within processes and objects that deal with imagery of the feminine, the fetishised and the handmade. Zapata’s studio practice is firmly based in fibre arts, utilising traditional weaving, coiling and latch-hook techniques to achieve very contemporary abstracted objects.

Zapata’s body of work addresses issues of labor, systems of power and control, Queerness, cultural relativism and the intersectionality of identity. Her works have been shown at venues including the Museum of Arts and Design, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, and Museo MATE in Lima.

WATCH THE LECTURE

International Speaker Series: Cloth Culture is an online series of lectures featuring five contemporary artists who utilise textiles to communicate complex narratives around their cultural heritage.

Online Lecture: Tuesday 8 March 2022 at 11am AEDT.