Cinthya Santos-Briones

Documentary Photographer
   
Amoxtli: The Migration Codex
Location: New York City
Nationality: Mexican
Biography: Cinthya Santos Briones is a Mexican participatory artist, anthropologist, ethnohistorian and community organizer based in New York. Her multimedia work uses collaborative and community narratives of self-representation to tell stories about... MORE
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Amoxtli: The Migration Codex
Copyright Cinthya Santos-Briones 2024
Date of Work Dec 2019 - Ongoing
Updated Jul 2021
Topics Documentary, Film, Fine Art, Immigration, Mixed Medium, Photography

The Migration Codex is an ongoing interdisciplinary project that takes up pre-Hispanic códices to explore and engage in dialogue with the historical, cultural and semiotic links that exist between pre-Columbian peoples and contemporary indigenous migrants from Mexico and Guatemala who live today in the United States, through participatory portraits, drawings and testimonies written in indigenous languages.



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