Congratulations to Tatiana Parcero whose work, Cartografía Interior #44, is now part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art. This marks a pivotal moment in her career. The National Gallery of Art stewards an extensive collection of art spanning centuries and cultures. Parcero's continued influence and recognition affirm her place among the essential voices of contemporary art. This acquisition elevates her profile, and secures her message in this archive of knowledge.

Cartografía Interior #44 was made the same year Parcero completed her Masters at New York University | International Center for Photography. An exemplary work, it has many earmarks important to her practice. The pose featured in this frame appears elsewhere in her work- it becomes itself a gesture, a symbol, an element itself. This pose of the figure with hands over her breast, her eyes closed, is meditative and present. Parcero’s work engages the act of performance, thus the appearance/reappearance is both harmonious and introspective. The appropriated layer of the image is drawn from a mesoamerican codex- one of few that survived destruction by Spanish colonizers. The drawing depicts an image that refers to a story that is both mythological and historic.

Study reveals that the image Parcero has chosen to put into context with her body is a reference to Chicōmōztōc. The word derives from Nahuatl: chicome (“seven”), oztotl (“cave”), and -c (“place”). "El lugar de las siete cuevas"or The Seven Caves is an origin story, considered sacred. The unity between body and nature persists in these cultures today. What we interpret from Parcero’s interplay between layers and details or the choice to invert- showing the cave upside down- is our own.