Laura Sofia Hinojosa

Biography

Laura Sofia Hinojosa is a Peruvian artist and writer based in Boston, Massachusetts. Through paintings, drawings, and photographs, she depicts experiences from the natural, metaphysical, and psychic worlds, exploring the intersection of different planes of existence. She works with silhouettes and geometrized realism, further adding meaning through repetition of symbols, including those of the natural world and the subconscious. Laura Sofia’s practice is guided by Indigenous cosmologies and psychoanalytic theory. Within the latter, psychopathologies, dream analysis, and memory repression are core subjects of inquiry. 

Laura Sofia earned a Bachelor’s of Arts with Honors in History from Mount Holyoke College. She was the recipient of the Evelyn Church Wilbur Prize for outstanding work in History, the Mariposa prize, and the Joseph Skinner Fellowship in Art. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, where she served as a Teaching Assistant in Still Life Photography and Visualizing the Curatorial Idea. Her work has been featured in the following exhibitions: Boston Young Contemporaries at Stone Gallery, Boston; IT FOLLOWED ME HOME at Gallery 263, Cambridge; Casa Tierra at Espacio 303, Lima; Sacra, Lima; Visions of the Void at Blanchard Gallery, South Hadley; and Deep Dive at Gaylord Memorial Library. She is currently working as the archives and research assistant at the Tufts Archival Research Center.                

Artist Statement

The internal world of the mind is a place of mystery where objectivity and linearity come undone. Through photographs, paintings, and drawings, I depict this inner world to explore the intersection of different realms of existence. I represent this axis through motifs, specifically symbols from the natural world and the personal subconscious. Silhouettes, geometric forms, and lines became a codex for personal stories connecting to themes of solitude, loss, and violence.

My practice is guided by Indigenous cosmologies and forms of image-making. In particular, perspectives on time/space and the power of symbolism. The content of my work is further influenced by psychoanalytic theory, focusing on psychopathologies, dream analysis, and memory suppression. In this way, the sacred weaves into psychological states, through which I make sense of the pain found in the past. I seek understanding by connecting to the internal non-physical place where boundaries between present-past and real-imagined are dissolved. I then look to the communities that cradle me, connecting the personal to my familial and ancestral inheritance. Existing in the nexus of individual experience and Indigenous temporalities, my work externalizes personal stories and makes them part of larger cosmological narratives.

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