Kora Moya Rojo

b. 1993, Spain

Kora Moya Rojo (born 1993, lives and works in Mexico City) is a visual artist whose paintings delve into the exploration of identity, personal displacement, and belonging. Through the portrayal of sensual, natural shapes blending floral, vegetal, and culinary elements, she constructs narratives rich with divine significance and utopian aspirations.

Using a vibrant palette and an amalgamation of watercolour, acrylic, and oil, Moya Rojo incorporates autobiographical, historical, architectural, and religious imagery with a rural sensibility. Initially employing digital techniques, she meticulously crafts dreamlike scenes in her canvases, which blur the boundary between inner and outer space. Her motifs mutate and seamlessly blend with their unspecified surroundings, blurring distinctions between self and other. Moya Rojo’s works soften the artificiality of man-made constructs, merging them with the natural, each element flowing weightlessly. Her compositions evoke old master still lifes with a nod to the surreal, incorporating endemic plants and ritualistic items rich with symbolic significance. Despite their static appearance, Moya Rojo’s paintings radiate life and resonate with an energy transcending earthly realms. Through a continuous metamorphosis, internal and external forces in her paintings render the familiar foreign and the foreign eerily familiar.

Kora Moya Rojo (b. 1993, Spain) lives and works between Mexico City, Mexico and Cartagena, Spain. Recent solo exhibitions include Ofrenda, Daniela Elbahara gallery, Mexico City, MX (2024); Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá, 9 French Place, London, UK (2023). Recent group exhibitions include Zeitgeist vol.II, Adhesivo Contemporary, Mexico City, MX, (2023); Nature Holds a Mirror, Ambar Quijano gallery, Mexico City, MX (2023); CACOTOPIA 07, Annka Kultys, London, UK (2023); Yourself in my Shoes, Tube Culture Hall, Milan, ITA; (2023), Between the Bridge and the Door, Pictorum Gallery, London, UK (2023); Narratives in Blossoming Vigor, SENS gallery, Hong Kong, HK, (2022). She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain (2015).

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