Shiva Lynn Burgos

Founder, The Mariwai Project

France

Shiva Lynn Burgos is an artist, curator, art collector and public speaker. In 2016, she founded GESTE Paris as an annual curatorial platform showcasing experimental image-based artworks that go beyond traditional photography. Her contemporary, conceptual and often collaborative artistic practice positions itself within the unifying concepts of evolution, competition, natural and social selection. The artist is specifically concerned with how evolution presents itself biologically, architecturally and culturally. She integrates field-collected and found objects with contemporary materials and technology as a resource for examining the shifting value systems of provenance in relation to currency, spirituality and custom. Burgos supports the recognition of living indigenous cultures by creating a direct reciprocal link with global museum collections and ethnographic scholars.