I create art that raises critical questions about Latina artists’ exclusion and erasure within the art system using performance, video installations, photography, and conceptual costumes. As a Cuban immigrant, I created my alter-ego, Cuquita The Cuban Doll, to rebuild a cultural home in the U.S. art scene, where I often feel excluded or underrepresented, illustrating how I inhabit an in-between cultural space of belonging and not belonging. My alter-ego references ‘cuquitas cubanas,’ a paper doll cutout distributed in Cuban magazines during childhood; instead of Barbies, I played with Cuquitas. I build my work from part of this autobiographical story to share the vulnerability, displacement, and otherness I have experienced, encouraging viewers to reflect on discrimination and social injustice. My background as a fashion designer supports me in expanding the aesthetic of my alter-ego by crafting unique costumes that shift the behavioral patterns of my body and the spaces I occupy.