Lucía Parias Rojas

I am interested in the aesthetics of change, the image in process, and non-linear narrative structures. I seek to activate the imagination and to sustain identity and meaning — of beings and things — in transformation, without fixing them into a single interpretation. I understand artistic practices as forms of agency and thought that emerge through making. My work unfolds across ceramics, writing, drawing, and moving images.

In 2014 I began my relationship with ceramics. In the craft I found not only a fragile and plastic material that allowed me to experiment and freely produce image-objects, but also a way of thinking from matter and through making. I believe our bodies resemble clay, and that through it we learn to listen, to soften, to glimpse, and to transform what we live and the context we inhabit. For me, ceramics guides — in a relationship of mutual affectation — feeling, thought, and imagination.

My teaching practice is directly nourished by this experience. I am guided by questions such as “how can imagination be accompanied and fostered?” and “how can one accompany without fixing what something should be?” For this reason, I privilege methodologies centered on process, experimentation, and listening. I understand listening as a perceptual and ethical disposition that allows the recognition of alterity and context in their complexity, without attempting to dominate them.

I conceive the classroom as a space of shared inquiry where making and thinking occur simultaneously, placing sensory experience and the role of affects in individual and collective life at the center. I consider that artistic practices there do not operate as means toward other ends, but as exercises in expressivity, attention, relationality, and critique. From this perspective, I accompany students in the construction of their own languages, encouraging processes of observation, materialization, and reflection that connect sensitivity, context, and taking a position in the world.