MAGALY VELA

Magaly Vega-Lopez was born in Mexico City in 1986. She is a visual storyteller who uses counter-narratives to start a dialogue on the violent acts of reality and pursues possible social healing through art.

She likes the idea of creating fictions that play with the "real". Stories that we can relate to, between the familiar and the oddness, she plays—creating new worlds that seem familiar but unrecognizable at the same time.

She uses art as a way to honor stories. Using her heritage to re-imagine the past and always think of art as a social act rather than an individual practice.