Esteban Cabeza de Baca

Cabeza de Baca complicates our understanding of progress, technology, and community, by revealing the historical truths of Native enslavement and the wrought legacy of colonialism. Fleeting moments and pivotal eras are flattened and examined in Cabeza de Baca’s work, often to mystical ends. There is a spiritual quality in each of the works, one that spins affectionately through subjects, even when tackling dark historical moments and the echoes of colonialism.