About Madara Tropa

Madara Tropa (b. Latvia 1987) is a visual artist based in the United States. She completed her studies at “La Esmeralda” National University of Art in Mexico City. She has participated in group shows at the Pier-2 Art Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the Equity Gallery in New York, the Museum of Mexico City, the Cultural Institute of Aguascalientes, the Modern Art Museum of Toluca, and others. Her artwork probes between the limits of fiction and reality, in the search for her most profound understanding of being. Using painting, installation, and video, Madara constructs dream-like spaces where the sense of human vacancy is uncertain and nebulous. This uncertainty entwines with the materials of ritual and magic, creating temporal shrines of intense auras of reflection, both personal and beyond.