Zahra Luengo Portfolio 2023

ZAHRA LUENGO

PORTFOLIO 2023

ABOUT

Cadiz, Spain 1985. Berlin based since 2013

Zahra`s work is determined by her deep interest in the Cosmos, the physics of light and the role of the feminine. She blend together in balance, manifesting a reflection towards our place in the world and in the universe which arise from the crossroads between scientific, philosophical and poetical thought.

Assuming herself as an observer, her work is characterized by the symmetry between dream and reality.

As a narrative medium, collage brings the capacity to shape constellations with her ideas, her worlds within worlds, contemplations, questions or analyses in a searching exercise for elevation, knowledge and expansion in space and time.

Manifested through analog collage, Zahra is constantly scanning the streets, rapping billboards and advertisements as if the city were the map of a giant-scale collage, extent as a dynamic performative principle. Recycling street posters, old books, illustrations, maps or fashion magazines and giving them a new chance or new life, is also a way to questionate the system of production in the field of contemporary arts and the exclusivity of materials in a consumerist society.

Collage becomes in her hands a relativistic tool, an anarchistic discipline of disobedience to subvert axiomatic hierarchies, a political exercise to redefine reality, a subversive strategy by the continuing searching for a deeper understanding.

Characterised by a frequent representation of women, we can read a deep analysis about the female role in mass media, and how its representations in a consumer society affects and negatively influences Self-stereotyping. She usually shows us women liberated from objectification and connected to the principles of nature as sacred living organism, but also conveys a critical message about gender identities transformed by advertising and marketing into a silent and fragmented body.