KAREN LOFGREN

This monograph artist book combines notes, dialogues, and annotated works, welcoming you to interlace Karen Lofgren’s living field work into encounters that shape a feminist and decolonial perspective moving through psychedelics, erotica, interspecies and cosmic love affairs.

Introduced by Karen Lofgren herself, this compendium considers works from an international practice, delivering sculptural charms that connect scientific fields to the spirit realm, leaving space for the unknown and the unknowable. Through dialogues with Mexican vocalist and performer, Carmina Escobar, who brings much empathy into nature, the body, and pedagogy; Peruvian feminist art- historian, curator and writer, Florencia Portocarrero; and Dutch curator and writer, Marjolein van der Loo, who brings a passion for ecology and social agendas, this work brings an intimate space where rituals, history, and mythology look to the construction of a greater consciousness over time.

Edited by Karen Lofgren, Freek Lomme, and Willem Henri Lucas and published by Set Margins’, with design by Willem Henri Lucas.

Praise for emBRUJAda: Charms for the Living:  “In her affecting interdisciplinary visual art and adventurous research practices, Karen Lofgren pursues curative pathways through science, sexuality and spiritualism. Her international and interdimensional experiments proceed with a fierce feminist and decolonial perspective, investigating a set of traditions across botanical healing, psychedelic insight, cosmic eroticism, interspecies communication, witchcraft, ritual, and precepts of folk and contemporary art — especially talismanic and energetically activated mixed-media sculptures. This new book builds on a foundation of Lofgren’s art works, contextualizing them within voluminous field and studio notes, diagrams, spells, observations, advice, and dialogues with a cohort of like-minded women from the worlds of performance and music, art history, curation, ecology, activism, mythology and consciousness.” -Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly, 2023

Text in English and Spanish

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