the thought, the impulse, the ARTIST statement
Keixpa is not an identity, but a latency—a fictional figure that embodies the tension between what has been shaped to remain hidden and what insists on emerging. Her presence is not a mask, but a gesture: a fragment, a trace, a visual resistance to the logic of clarity, impact, and resolution.
Working through photography, print, text, and material gestures, Keixpa explores how intimate, social, and professional structures mould presence and silence what is genuine. Her work resists spectacle and favours friction: what appears is often partial, interrupted, or veiled—not to obscure, but to protect.
This is not a practice of polished concepts or definitive proofs. It is an embodied space of thought, where what remains unnamed demands presence. The image becomes residue, not product—a trace of what dares to come through.
Her practice also extends to typographic interventions, where rescued letterpress types fracture words and disrupt clarity, transforming language into a visual site of resistance.
What guides this process is not visibility, but insistence. What remains unnamed, unpolished, undomesticated also deserves to be seen.