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HuguesLuka

Visual Artist

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Trance and Truce

Rooted in a ritual dialogue with my spiritualist great-great-grandmother, I use photography as an oracle of the feminine psyche, reclaiming trance and magic as a form of resistance to the historical control of female bodies and desires.

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Anansi

Threads have led me down wonderful paths of knowledge:

 

To be gesture, return to the body, dive into repetition and trance. To turn inward upon an intuited knowledge that flows deep in the womb. 

 

Let the hands dance the wisdom of origin and union, to connect with the first strand that gave birth to the structure of life. 

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Downstream River

Walk the path of the river itself. Give encouragement, sing a song. Call the one who knows, the grandmother, the
woman of a thousand worlds, to the woman beneath the earth. Acquire the memory of magic to digest and embody the possibility of transformation.

Sibilants

A Poetic Essay on Everyday Life
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I hear—oh no!
I feel once again
the footsteps on the ceiling;
I refuse to check what’s causing them,
lest it be last night
or a vagrant determined
to take over my home

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Original Fissure

A legend says that it was a crack through which the light entered, through which God looked out.

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Portrait Room

I imagine the walls falling down after a year of peeling and I help break them down with a sledgehammer.

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Press, Exhibitions and
Conferences

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Teaching

Art pedagogies that enable new ways of existing. Building trust in multiple voices and courage in our psychic and structural differences.

 

Enabling processes that transcend the chaotic and the irrational. Processes that dignify dreams, shadows, mistakes, and fears.

ALEJANDRA HUGUES IRAZÁBAL

 

Photographer, visual artist, and artisan. She fuses a constant spiritual and philosophical restlessness with a deep interest in developing manual and analog techniques, interweaving the physical and the spiritual. Her themes explore ancestry and the origin of the universe, where she dismantles and rearticulates imposed archetypes to narrate a personal and free mythology. She experiences her projects through mediumship, a place of alchemy and transformation.

 

Seeks to develop art pedagogies that enable new ways of existing. Trust in multiple voices and courage in differences.

 

Winner of the Young Creators Scholarship 2024-2025
with the project If one day I find you.

 

@huguesluka

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