Diana Lopez Soto

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Award-winning multidisciplinary Mexican/Canadian artist, mother and land caretaker. Diana has presented and exhibited her work nationally and internationally in France, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, the USA and Canada. She produces and co-produces site-specific performances, vertical dance, art installations and experimental film. Her interest in sustainable practices informs the direction of her collaborations and offerings.

Diana’s love for material, physics and body/space connections informs her rigging designs and structures, installations and sculptural sets that come to life through her movement explorations.

Description of Diana's Work

Elazadas is a site-specific installation that explores performance as an act of reciprocity with the space, the living organisms and the energies in which the process takes place. Inspired by the poem of Octavio Paz ‘Dos Cuerpos’ (two bodies) ‘Enlazadas’ brings together sculpture, performance art, aerial dance, storytelling and ritual in an experience of transition and discovery.

This work is inspired by mutual personal and shared stories of relationships to mothering, body/land, womanhood and migration. ‘Enlazadas’ is a visual narrative of a perpetual encounter between two parallel lives woven within the suspension of time. Linked by the umbilical cord of their origin of creation; the intersection of these two bodies unleashes fears inherited by their collective mothers and exposes a metamorphosis of secrets.

Diana Lopez and Victoria Mata have collaborated in the development of ‘Enlazadas’ for six years. Their individual process as artists, activists and caregivers has brought them together in this journey.Victoria is an award-winning artist who has created, collaborated, produced and presented work across Canada, South America and USA. Process is vital for both Diana and Victoria’s creative practice, both deeply rooted in embodied responses to landscapes and energetic journeys that inform their expressions of installation art, durational work, site-specific work, ritual and film.