Sierra's project of painting his body as tribute to pre-Columbian cultures, documenting the performance in photographs that deliberately position him in erotic and suggestive poses. The work challenges dominant narratives that separate Indigenous cultural heritage from contemporary sexuality, particularly queer sexuality. By applying body paint referencing pre-Columbian aesthetic traditions and then photographing himself in poses coded as homoerotic, Sierra insists that these cultural legacies belong to all Colombians—including queer Colombians, including those who refuse respectability politics in claiming that heritage. The performance becomes archaeological in reverse: rather than excavating the past, Sierra embodies it through his present queer body, suggesting that Indigenous traditions of body decoration, ritual performance, and aesthetic transformation never required colonial Christian sexual morality to be "authentic" or "respectful."
 
Body Paint tribute to the Afro and pre-Columbian cultures, taking erotic and suggestive poses such as reading among others.
 
Pre-Columbian body painting combined with erotic performance—Indigenous cultural heritage claimed through contemporary queer body and homoerotic self-representation. Nude photography documentation. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.