This collection of images corresponds to the exhibition presented at lagos | estudios y residencias during October and November 2024. It is the result of a thorough process of research and experimentation by Carla Aparicio. We are very pleased with the outcome of this debut exhibition, in which she was able to express—through various media—her deep interest in grasping the collective Unity of the Sacred Feminine. Hence the title of the show: From One to a Thousand and from a Thousand to One.

This exhibition marks the first experience in which lagos | estudios y residencias extended its practice over more than a year into a pedagogical process. Within this framework, Carla transitioned from expressing herself primarily through photography to exploring other contemporary languages. She thus translated her evolving artistic practice into video, performance, installation, augmented reality, printmaking, and neon—a work-in-progress that aims to reassemble and expand her future creative direction, while also strengthening collaboration with fellow artists.

Carla’s dedication, commitment, and openness throughout this process of creative exploration into new media deserves to be acknowledged. These are key links in the chain of strength she is building to reorient herself toward her other life purpose: her artistic self, which she can now fully embrace in the fullness of her time as a mother.

In this way, the project represents a kind of closure of a cycle, a clear declaration of the path Carla has followed through this learning-teaching journey. Beyond gaining experience and skills within the contemporary art circuit, she has earned the recognition and friendship of the lagos community.

Her body of work, centered around the Sacred Feminine as framed by post-feminist thought, emerges from the presence and awareness of being a woman. It enables the re-creation of women from within themselves, their ways of believing and practicing, of defining and redefining themselves through personal, bodily, and lived narratives. In an expansive sense, the work aligns with ecofeminism, as it is grounded in the interconnectedness of life on a planetary and solar system scale—with the pieces in the Lunar Alphabet understood in connection to the practices of the 11 lunar centers.

olgaMargarita dávila
Chief curator