Naufus Figueroa

Naufús Figueroa is a Guatemalan-Canadian inter-disciplinary artist working in video, installation, and performance. His work looks at various issues relating to War and
Diaspora.

Past works include The Sun is Crooked in the Sky, My Father is Thrown Over My Shoulders (FADO, Toronto 2005), a one hundred hour action-based endurance piece exploring personal Mestizo familial history and recurrent incidences of absent white(r) fathers; Written Sorrows (Neutral Ground, Regina 2006), a performance which examined the loneliness of the urban landscape and the invisibility of acts and gestures of sorrow in public spaces; At The Base of Her Spine (Open Space Gallery, 2003) looked at the construct of the Mongolian spot, an arbitrary socio-political marker of indigeneity within Latin American families.

Current projects look at Espritismo as a means of negotiating contemporary social identities and familial memory. Three Ghosts examines how the perception of ancestorship and spirits is affected by contempory popular imagery such as the ghosts in the Pac-Man video game. Casa Cunas looks at the unexceptionalness and eerie normality of former sites of trauma. Muxux Uleu attempts reconciliation with the traumatic violence of recent wars.

Naufús Figueroa has a Bachelor of Media Arts from ECI, and is currently a Merit Scholar in the MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Figueroa is a 2007 recipient of the Franklin Furnace Performance Art Fund.