Lorena Izquierdo

Lorena Izquierdo holds a degree in Philosophy and Art History and a Master's in Artistic Practices in Fine Arts, specializing in performance art. She is a shareholder, vocalist, and poet born in Valencia, Spain. Trained in Butoh dance and improvisation, she has also studied cello, voice, photography, and performance art. In her work, she explores various concepts through the body, voice, poetry, sound, space, time, and unusual relationships with everyday objects, which she terms voice action. She also writes and conducts theoretical research on experimental art.

Collaborations with musicians in diverse ensembles have been a significant focus in recent years, including work with Axel Dörner, Sofía Salvo, Merche Blasco, Steffi Weismann, and Anna Clementi, among others. Over the past fifteen years, she has performed, exhibited, taught workshops, and curated projects worldwide, including in Madrid, Israel, Japan, London, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, and Germany.

She has been living in Berlin for seven years, where she is actively engaged in performing, writing, and curating regularly in different series such as Dissidents, Reflexionen, and Positionen, all of which are self-managed by her.

Regarding the voice, she is drawn to the peculiar, the original, what emerges from collective work, intuition, the exploration of limits, and the impossible. She is interested in the scream, exaggeration, but also restraint and the invisible. The gesture, as vocal material, and the unique, unrepeatable experience are central to her practice. Her search for sound arises more from a visual or deformative approach, from distancing herself from narrative meaning, but also from seeking the precision of chance, the brilliance of the monstrous, and moving away from beauty as purity or as a vanishing point.