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Soma y’Luz was discovered in the eighties by the editor Günther Braus, who introduced her into the international world of photography. Only a few years later she retired from the ‘market’ and moved to the island of Lanzarote. There she began to work with various media and materials (‘objets trouvés’) which she arranged to art- installations, together with sound(s), lighting design, collages, photographs and poetic texts.

In 2001 she began the project ‘Agencia e Phure Manoucheskero’, a work in constant progress, in which she portrays and interviews people who stand out for being true to themselves. Within the context of this project she founded the ‘School of Seeing: Becoming aware’ and initiated various actions including, among others, ‘Art-Mail – Inspirations’, ’The Stones of Memory’, ‘777 Messages in a Bottle from a Castaway’,…

“Soma y’Luz still belongs to the ancient order of crusaders, for whom a crusade lasts their whole live.”
Andrés Gamboa, Art Director, LUNWERG Editores.

Lives and works in Seville, Spain and Varanasi, India.

Exhibitions:

1993, Images – Comme dans un miroir, Musée Elysée, Lausanne
1994, Still Lives, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo
2001, Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2002, Alvarez Bravo: Private Collection, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico DC
2004, Collectors I, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim
2004, Menschenbilder’, AirPort Gallery, Frankfurt
2012, An die Grenzen gehen, Instituto Cervantes, Berlin
2014, Vom Werden und Vergehen, Kunstlerhaus Bregenz