In her artistic practice, Eli Cortiñas traverses contemporary and historical visual cultures. She dissects them with the techniques of montage and collage, shifts limiting attributions and creates space for feminist and decolonial narrative patterns. Through appropriation, re-reading, and reassembling, she brings together what appears to be and reveals the contexts of production and consumption attributed to images, as well as the patterns of perception within which images operate. Eli Cortiñas' work circles around the visual and cultural and considers them in their relationships. She exposes traditional conventions of image representation and considers them in their relationships. She exposes traditional conventions of representation and identifies surprisingly tightly-knit narratives. Cortiñas traces a continuity in her work, that can be found in the pictorial and ideological history of the Us-European 20th century: sexist and racist stereotypes. With her collages, Eli Cortiñas creates moments of reflection. The revealed continuity of the pictorial narrative leads to a rupture and thus strives for something new and free.