Biography

Sofia Saravia (Guatemala, 1988) is a multidisciplinary artist and architectural lighting designer whose work explores the tension between structure and emotion, clarity and distortion, presence and disappearance. Trained as an architect, she has painted since childhood, developing a visual language that merges bold color, layered materials, and fragmented identity. Her pieces often feature female faces—not as traditional portraits, but as constructed emotional archives, built from memory, glitch, and intuition.

Her studies in art history, photography, and stage lighting have shaped a sensibility rooted in both observation and experimentation. The influence of architecture is ever-present: in scale, spatial balance, and compositional rigor. Yet her pieces remain raw, personal, and instinctive. Through painting, she investigates what we choose to reveal—and what remains hidden.

Saravia’s recent work engages with digital aesthetics and visual errors. In her series Corrupted Memories, she reimagines the self as an unstable file: corrupted, glitched, and endlessly reprocessed. Her use of vibrant palettes draws from the saturated chaos of her native Guatemala—its markets, murals, tropical light, and colonial decay—all filtered through a deeply contemporary lens.

Each series marks a shift, never a repetition. She doesn’t seek a fixed style but instead embraces transition. Her works are not passive images; they are emotional portals, places that the viewer must enter. Through glitch, color, and scale, she maps the instability of identity—one layer at a time.