this is KEIXPA


the PRACTICE
Trace (2025)
The Silent Moulding (2025)
The Visible Invisible Command (2025)
What Resists (2025)
Pre-Image (2025)
Pulse (2025)
Typos in Fracture (2025)
Visual Poetry


the ARTIST statement
who is KEIXPA
REACH out
@keixpa

Trace (2025)


Digital photography and simulated photocopy process. Series of 12 images , 2025

Repetition.
Steady.
Do what I say.
Do what you have to do.
Don’t move.
Don’t breathe.
Don’t dream.
Don’t think. Repetition.
Every day, for hours.
Repetition.
Resistance.
Fighting for your spirit
not without fear.
Sometimes fragile.
Trying to protect your original being. But with time,
sometimes,
you feel it
starts
to disappear.

TRACE 








CONCEPTUAL  note
TRACE explores what is lost and what persists when repetition becomes a form of control. Beginning with a digital photograph of Keixpa’s body, the work simulates a “photocopying” process: twelve digital iterations that mimic the erosion of an image reproduced again and again, without ever returning to its source.

This is not technical documentation, but visual metaphor. With each iteration, the figure loses clarity—becoming less distinct, more worn. Yet it does not vanish. The body, though altered, resists disappearance.

Keixpa is not still—she is trapped. She struggles to escape a routine imposed upon her, a repetition that drains agency. And yet, in every stage, there is resistance—a fragile presence refusing to be erased.

The sequence ends with a nearly ghosted form: barely a trace. But even that trace testifies. What is essential, though blurred, has not been extinguished.
Photography by Mao Sanchez, under the creative direction of the artist

© Keixpa, 2025 All images and texts are part of an ongoing artistic practice.
Do not reproduce without permission.  

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