Sophia Arrazola is a Guatemalan transdisciplinary artist, design strategist, and futures researcher working across art, pedagogy, public space, and social practice. Her work explores gender, migration, human rights, collective memory, and plural futures through participatory processes, visual research, speculative storytelling, and data-informed installations.
Rooted in feminist methodologies and care-centered communication, her practice creates spaces for listening, memory, and collective imagination within geographies shaped by inequality and displacement. Alongside her artistic practice, Sophia collaborates with cultural institutions, grassroots organizations, NGOs, and purpose-driven initiatives to design participatory programs, visual identities, editorial materials, and context-responsive strategies.
She is the founder of Mi Calle, Nuestra Calle, a community lab that uses creative methodologies to explore how women inhabit and reimagine public space through workshops, interventions, collaborative archives, and feminist urban imaginaries. She currently serves as Coordinator of Impact at La Nueva Fábrica in Guatemala, where she develops gender-responsive pedagogical programs connecting contemporary art with schools, educators, and communities.
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).