ABOUT
Sabino Guisu is a multidisciplinary artist born in Juchitán, Oaxaca (1986), Mexico, into a family of pottery artisans. His work is deeply rooted in Zapotec heritage and Indigenous cosmology. His artistic practice spans painting, music, and contemporary art, using each medium as a tool for free expression and conscious play. Rather than pursuing aesthetics alone, Guisu creates symbolic worlds that address social inequality, ecological imbalance, and cultural resistance, positioning art as both reflection and act of liberation.
Drawing inspiration from ancestral knowledge systems, Guisu frequently references Zapotec mythology, archaeological sites, and spiritual figures—jaguars, bats, coyotes, the iconic axolotl, and other sacred beings that populate Oaxaca’s cosmovision. These elements form the foundation of ongoing bodies of work such as Zapotec Death Poems, a project that connects past, present, and future through a poetic exploration of life, death, and transformation.
For Guisu, creation is inseparable from lived experience. His work is fueled by the act of being alive itself, by the freedom of making, and by an intuitive process that embraces experimentation and play while remaining deeply conscious of historical responsibility. Through his practice, ancestral narratives are not preserved as relics, but activated—carried forward into contemporary contexts where they continue to speak, evolve, and challenge.
