ARTESANA FOUNDATION
NEW YORK
Artesana Foundation is a New York–based nonprofit dedicated to cultivating artistic practices that connect body, nature, and technology through an ecofeminist and community-centered lens. Founded by multidisciplinary artist and curator Alexandra Trujillo Tamayo, the foundation creates spaces where creativity becomes a tool for healing, critical inquiry, and collective transformation.
Artesana supports emerging and mid-career artists through experimental labs, residencies, public programs, and exhibitions that explore themes such as ecology, decoloniality, care practices, and sustainable futures. The foundation works at the crossroads of performance, visual arts, and social practice, fostering projects that challenge dominant narratives and amplify underrepresented voices.
With a commitment to accessibility and cultural inclusion, Artesana Foundation collaborates with local and international partners to build platforms that nurture creative autonomy, support interdisciplinary research, and generate regenerative cultural ecosystems. Our mission is to empower artists and communities to imagine—and shape—more ethical, interconnected, and resilient worlds.
My practice operates at the intersection of performance, installation, and research-based curatorship, where the body becomes both archive and instrument of inquiry. Working between Ecuador and New York, I develop projects that examine how ecological systems, colonial histories, and technologies of perception shape embodied experience and collective memory.
Through performance, video, and immersive environments, I explore the body not as a fixed identity, but as a living field of transmission—where trauma, ritual, and ecological interdependence are stored, repeated, and transformed. My work is grounded in ecofeminist and decolonial methodologies that question dominant systems of knowledge production and propose alternative ways of sensing, remembering, and organizing life.
Central to my practice is the notion of extraction—not only as a geological or economic process, but as a cultural and psychological structure that informs how bodies, territories, and imaginaries are governed. I am interested in how these extractive logics operate on intimacy, on landscape, and on perception itself, and how they might be interrupted through embodied and collective gestures.
Within this framework, I founded Artesana Foundation as a curatorial and research platform that extends my artistic practice into a collaborative field. Artesana functions as a space for producing and situating works that engage with ecological thought, feminist epistemologies, and post-extractive imaginaries. It is not only an exhibition platform, but a living structure for inquiry, collaboration, and critical imagination.
Across my projects, I build immersive and sensory environments that activate slowness, attention, and relational awareness. These works invite viewers into unstable territories where the boundaries between body and landscape, observer and system, are constantly shifting. I am interested in how these encounters can generate new forms of knowledge that are felt, embodied, and shared rather than extracted or consumed.
Ultimately, my practice asks how we umight inhabit the world differently—how we might unlearn systems of separation and rediscover forms of interdependence between bodies, technologies, and ecosystems
