Irma Bejarle
Visual artist born in 1997, México. She has a master’s degree in Modern and Contemporary Art by Casa Lamm from 2025, and an undergrad in Visual Arts from the Autonomous University of Baja California. Since 2021, she’s been part of the photography collective called Fotógrafas del Norte. She’s participated in international formative programs for visual artists like Proyecto Imaginario Latinoamérica (2020-21) and Círculo (2021), and she was an intern at the Koffler Gallery in Toronto, Canada, in 2019. Her work has been acquired by Zarur collection of emerging Mexican art, and has been published in several international mediums like Revista Ampolleta Roja vol 1.; Archivo Vivo published by the Baja Californian Secretary of Culture and #173 of Cuartoscuro Magazine. Her work has been exhibited in international collective exhibitions among Tijuana, Ensenada, Zacatecas, Ciudad de México, Ciudad Juárez, San Diego, Tucson, Buenos Aires and Toronto. In 2025 she participated in E-LACF (Encuentro Latinoamericano de Colectivos Fotográficos), the first symposium of photographic collectives around Latin America.
Lava I
Inkjet Print on Archival Matte paper, 2026.
59.4 × 42 cm
$250
Lava II
Inkjet Print on Archival Matte paper, 2026.
59.4 × 42 cm
$150
Lava III
Inkjet Print on Archival Matte paper, 2026.
59.4 × 42 cm
$150
My work explores the human body concerning the limits we inhabit through time, either those of our skin, the environment, or our home. I’m interested in the body as a metaphor of the terrestrial landscape, and how disease and damage manifest with similar visual signs on each surface. In the case of the present work, titled “LAVA” (2026), the images are taken from an older work titled “Landscapes” circa 2016-2017. The original image consists of abstracts of the body in black and white, resembling a desert landscape. I took the old prints and decided to experiment with bleaching the photographic paper. That strange juxtaposition of black and white with random, bright yellow spots makes me think of a burning landscape or an altered state. Like magma surfacing from a volcanic structure, an old work of art can be reactivated and resignified by a simple, even random experimentation.