An image from Prayer for Tending Death, one of the productions that also features Elyla.
Elyla
Chontales, Nicaragua
Elyla is a performance artist, researcher and activist from Central America, Nicaragua. Their work deals with creating resistance to colonial, imperialist, and western ideologies around the construction of identity politics and nation-state cultural narratives, specifically as it relates to mestizaje, queerness (cochoneidad), and indigenous ancestry.