Latine
Drawing from the iconography and craft traditions of the Northern Andes and the global south, Asicaz Monzón-Aguirre Ortiz creates sculptures and installations that reframe how material culture mediates identity, queerness, and remembrance. Their work merges ceramics, textiles, and other materials into hybrid forms that explore concealment, transformation, and the symbolic coding of objects. Centering the aesthetic legacies of postcolonial and diasporic histories, they approach sculpture as a site of cultural recovery and reimagination.
– International Academy of Ceramics, 2023.
Truco, 2025.
Aluminum, copper, press-on nails, nail polish.
44.5 × 29.5 × 9.8 in / 113 x 75 x 25 cm
Joven [Youth], 2022 – 2023.
Earthenware, nail polish.
35 x 18 x 7 in / 89 x 46 x 17 cm.
Joven [Youth], 2025 – 2026.
Sand-cast aluminum with automotive-grade finish.
101.58 × 50 × 20.86 in / 258 × 127 × 53 cm.
Anciane [Elder], 2022.
Terracotta, nail polish.
29-1/2 x 21-1/2 x 30 in / 101.6 x 53.34 x 76 cm
Desnudo [Nude], 2022.
Earthenware, nail polish.
8.8 x 9.5 x 9.8 in / 22.2 x 24.1 x 24.8 cm
Desnudo [Nude], 2022.
Earthenware, nail polish.
8.8 x 9.5 x 9.8 in / 22.2 x 24.1 x 24.8 cm
Égida (mariquita), 2023.
Glazed earthenware.
14 x 13 x 6 in / 24 x 25 x 18 cm.
Manilla (mariposas), 2023.
Earthenware, fique.
115 x 8.6 x 1.6 in / 292 x 22 x 4 cm.
Manilla (mariposas), 2023 – 2025.
Earthenware, fique rope.
307.1 × 17.7 × 4.3 in / 735 cm x 60 x 10 cm
Velo hamaca, 2023.
Cotton hammock, crocheted doilies.
60 x 72 x 72 in / 24 x 25 x 18 cm.
In collaboration with Juan Manuel Ortiz Maya.
Ictiomorfo, 2024.
Enamel, earthenware, limestone and plaster on wooden board.
60 x 25 x 4 in / 152.4 x 63.5 x 10.2 cm.
Inmersión, 2022.
Single-channel video, color, sound, 2:49.
Unedited video footage from a performance taken in 2022 using basic equipment in Media Luna, a rural district of Medellín where my family is from. The video blurs artifice, ritual, and documentation. Camera by Robert Hickerson.