Multi-faceted Peruvian artist Eliana Otta develops participatory projects and deploys a wide range of media to delve into the uneven development, incongruencies, and pressures of daily life in today’s megalopolises such as her hometown, Lima. Self-identified feminist, she is particularly interested in the politics of class and gender. Her work is finely attuned to the ways in which concrete, diverse bodies function in and claim their rights to urban space and public sphere. For the project Women’s Words (Palabras de mujeres, 2017), the selections from which are shown here, Otta handpicked phrases from the poems by well-known Peruvian writers Montserrat Álvarez and Carmen Ollé to turn them into slogans of denunciation and self-assertion. Simultaneously, her humorous embroidered banners crafted from plastic and kitchen towels, and supported by recycled shoes, reclaim domestic labor to which women had been traditionally relegated as tools of self-expression and empowerment.