El Aura (The Aura, 2025) uses the techniques of etching, aquatint and drypoint (edition: 8 + 2 AP) to depict a hybrid figure comprised of plant and human elements. Roots run through its face like veins, while leaves form its eyebrows. Seemingly incorporeal, the face floats like an apparition, crowned by a flower on which a bee rests.
For Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, humans and nature are inextricably linked and part of a cosmic structure. In her work, she explores the relationship between humans and the environment from social, ecological and emotional perspectives. ‘Plants have an aura’, explains Vásquez de la Horra, ‘and I believe that a plant can also have a soul.’ By merging head and flower, cyclical and linear time, El Aura suggests a poetic connection between humans and the environment, lending this relationship an energetic, healing aura.
Vásquez de la Horra’s imagery is influenced by Christian, African and Indigenous Latin American myths, as well as by traumatic experiences.
El Aura (The Aura), 2025
Etching, aquatint and drypoint
Paper size 36 x 48 cm
Plate size 22.5 x 30.5 cm
Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Signed and numbered by the artist
Price: €1,900 (incl. VAT)
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, El Aura, 2025, Photo: Judith Buss, VG Bild Kunst, Bonn 2025