With drawing as her primary medium, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra explores the relationship between the human body and the physical, psychological, and political landscapes it inhabits. Born in Chile, Vásquez de la Horra lived through Augusto Pinochet’s repressive dictatorial regime (1973–90), eventually leaving her home country in the 1990s to study art in Germany, where she continues to live and work today. Engaging with themes of mortality, trauma, ritual, and ecology, Vásquez de la Horra’s creative practice confronts the realities of subjugation and censorship through an ecofeminist sensibility and a visual vocabulary seeped in myth and mystery.

Also central to Vásquez de la Horra’s work is an interest in human connections to plant life, animals, and land. Conflating body and landscape, she captures the expansiveness of life’s cycles and reveals the ways in which these cycles connect us to nature, ourselves, and one another. Often enshrining her drawings in organic beeswax, Vásquez de la Horra calls attention to the endless tensions and transformations of humans and the environment. 

The artist’s limited edition works include Los Susuros (The whispers) (2025), a print made from an intricate graphite pencil and watercolor drawing, and Estrella de la Mañana (Morning star) (2025), an accordion-like paper sculpture coated in beeswax. Reflective of the subjects that have remained steadfast over Vásquez de la Horra’s four-decade career, these editions reveal the manifold ways in which the artist has consistently challenged the limits and possibilities of what a drawing is and can be.