Sophia Arrazola is a Guatemalan artist, futurist, and urban anthropologist whose transdisciplinary practice bridges community-engaged practices, critical pedagogy, and research-based approaches. Her work examines the intersections of gender, human rights and social transformation, engaging with communities to develop context-responsive art projects rooted in lived experience—particularly within geographies shaped by inequality, migration, and collective memory.
With over eight years of experience across Latin America and Europe, Sophia integrates public space interventions, collaborative storytelling, and data-informed installation to create living archives of voices, dreams, and shared imaginaries.
By weaving together qualitative narratives and quantitative research, her practice opens spaces for dialogue, repair, and speculative world-building that foreground the visions and urgencies of her collaborators.
She is the founder of Mi Calle, Nuestra Calle, a community lab for art, research, and plural futures centering women and planetary care. She currently serves as Coordinator of Impact at La Nueva Fábrica (Guatemala), where she develops and implements gender-responsive pedagogical programs. In parallel, she works as an independent consultant in human-centered design and cultural strategy for grassroots movements, NGOs, and international cooperation agencies.
Artistic Residency at La Nueva Fábrica (2022). Photography: Mi Calle, Nuestra Calle
Vernacular Clothesline (2023) — 100 testimonies on public space in Mexico City. Photography: Mi Calle, Nuestra Calle
Vernacular Clothesline (2023) — 100 testimonies on public space in Mexico City. Photography: Mi Calle, Nuestra Calle
Community Mural La Nueva Fábrica, Santa Ana (2022). Photography: Mi Calle, Nuestra Calle
The Fluidity of Bodies (2024) — Feminist reflections on water, spirituality & politics. Photography: Rocío Conde
Recent projects
The Fluidity of Bodies — Santa Ana, Antigua Guatemala 2024
Part of AULA, an educational program by the renowned platform LA ESCUELA__—an international initiative that connects contemporary art and pedagogy across the Global South—realized through an institutional collaboration with La Nueva Fábrica. Conceived, led, and implemented by Sophia Arrazola and Seba Calfuqueo—a Mapuche artist and educator—this project invited youth in Santa Ana to explore water as a relational and epistemological body.
Grounded in feminist and decolonial methodologies, participants (ages 13–15) engaged in workshops, field research, and collective sound-making to trace embodied, historical, and spiritual relationships to local waterways. This gesture offered a communal reimagining of water as more-than-resource: a living archive, a political actor, and an intimate collaborator in shaping futures otherwise.
From My Window — Mexico City 2024
A participatory soundscape capturing the everyday sonic textures of Colonia San Rafael, one of Mexico City’s oldest neighborhoods. Through interviews with long-time residents, vendors, and commuters, this work foregrounds the voices that shape the area’s identity—offering a layered portrait of place, memory, and collective presence.
Audio mastering by Daniel Fernando Wahl (Germany).