Lauda Vargas
- A Daily Reminder
- Archive of Destruction
- Archive of Destruction II
- Of Bodies
- Recuerdos Desconocidos
- For my dad
- between absences
- self portrait
- Still Processing
- Ayiti
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Lauda Virginia Vargas
(b. 1992, Santo Domingo)
Raised between the Caribbean and the United States, Lauda Virginia Vargas is an architect and multidisciplinary artist based in Copenhagen. Through sculpture, drawing, and collage, she examines cartography as an archival tool and a fragmented narrative of displacement. Her practice navigates the spatial and temporal complexities of the Caribbean, exploring the archipelago as a site of continual rupture, transformation, and liberation. Her work considers landscapes as living archives—where power, memory, and belonging intersect.
Her work oscillates between archiving and anti-archiving—preserving, disrupting, and interrogating what is deemed worthy of archiving versus what is deliberately or unconsciously erased. She explores how landscapes, documents, and material fragments are repositories of relationships and histories. By working with family stories, inherited memories, and landscape, she engages in a re-mapping of place, positioning embodiment itself as a cartographic practice.
She holds a Master of Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy. Her work has been exhibited at Sharp Projects, Copenhagen, and Gallery 45m2, Prague, with writings and features in The Funambulist and Disc Journal. She has presented her practice in Denmark, Sweden, and the Dominican Republic and her work is part of the collection at St. Göran’s Hospital’s Psychiatric Department, Stockholm. In 2024, she was awarded the IASPIS Swedish Arts Grants residency in Stockholm.