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Lines of Identity
Lines of Identity turns to the body, human, organic, and imagined, as a landscape of truth. Here Luna explores how form defines and dissolves, how the curve of a shoulder or the contour of a leaf can reveal the architecture of existence itself. Each line becomes both boundary and bridge: tracing what separates us and what connects us, what is seen and what is felt.
These drawings and paintings do not seek perfection of form, but the honesty of presence. They suggest that identity, like a line, is never fixed, it moves, bends, trembles, becomes. Within the nude and the natural, the artist finds the same geometry of being: bodies and branches shaped by time, by tenderness, by the invisible weight of living.
Lines of Identity exists as a meditation on the fluid language of form, where drawing becomes remembering, and every mark redefines what it means to be alive, to belong, to be seen.
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Raw and Impermanent
Charcoal, raw and impermanent, speaks of bodies that have been rewritten, erased, redrawn. collage, born of fragments, reimagines the self as multiplicity, a self composed of many selves, stitched together by memory and desire. together, they form a visual language that is as emotional as it is political, where every portrait stands as a testament to the courage of existing fully, vulnerably, beautifully.
These are not portraits in the traditional sense. they are stories written across faces, scars, gestures, chronicles of love found and love forbidden, of chosen families, of queerness as both wound and liberation. Each piece demands to be witnessed at scale, to confront the viewer with the undeniable presence of those whose lives have shaped the quiet revolutions of our time.
Within the vastness of these works, the individual and the collective meet. They remind us that identity is never still, that every person holds a landscape within them, a geography of longing, a history of resilience. and through these monumental images, drawn from charcoal’s simplicity and collage’s complexity, the artist calls us to remember: visibility is not vanity, it is survival.
The weight of being seen
In each face, there is an ocean of untold stories, fragments of survival, tenderness, rebellion, and rebirth. The portraits rise from silence like monoliths of memory, immense in scale and intimate in detail, where every shadowed line of charcoal or torn fragment of collage carries the breath of a life once hidden, now unafraid to take up space.
This movement of gigantic storytelling portraits is an act of reclamation. It transforms the walls they inhabit into mirrors of collective identity, queer, fluid, undefinable. Through sweeping gestures of black dust and the tactile layering of paper, colour, and skin, each work becomes both confession and monument: a sanctuary for those who have been rendered invisible.
Medium of Choice
Luna Peregrino speaks through materials, through charcoal, organic fragments, and the detritus of time. Charcoal allows her to draw with both weight and ephemeral whisper: dark tangents that swallow light yet reveal form. It is both bold and fragile, a medium that holds the smudge of memory, the trace of gesture, the residue of breath.
Alongside charcoal, she deploys collage of natural and reclaimed elements: dried leaves, earth, old paper, burnt cardboard, stained canvas, roots, and other organic matter. These materials are not mere adornments, they are voices, history, and collapse made physical. A leaf fallen in autumn, the soil of a garden, a charred sliver of cardboard, they all carry memory, place, decay, and renewal. When woven into her work, they become witnesses to identity, to lineage, to the land and body that shape us.
The collision of charcoal’s stark intensity with collage’s textured complexity yields a visual dialect: one part drawing, one part relic. In every piece, material is narrative. The cracks, the fibrous veins of a leaf, the stained edge of paper, and the lines taking shape within them, they all play a role in speaking what cannot be said in words.
Art Expression of Choice
Luna’s art refuses to hide. It is scaled, grand, immersive. Her preferred canvases, carpets, sheets of paper, and collages are large, so large that they demand presence. These works inhabit space, turning walls into stages for the lives she depicts.
Each piece is often framed with care: wood, stainless steel, or metal, with or without glass, depending on the work’s relationship to light, shadow, and transparency. The solidity of frame (wood or metal) anchors the work to the tangible world, while glass can amplify the fragility, the echoes of layers, and the depth of materials. Framing is not merely a finishing touch, it is part of the work’s architecture, its interface with the viewer.
In their scale and presentation, these works are anchored in both public and intimate realms. They can dominate a gallery wall or quietly dwell in a more personal space, but always they demand you come close, linger, enter their textures, read their surfaces.
The Artist’s Process
Luna works in two distinct modes, each essential to her vision: medium-term execution and immediate execution.
Medium-term execution
Some works begin as slow gestation. She collects elements, such as leaves, soil, scraps of paper, found textiles, rooted in the conceptual frame of the piece: its narrative, its theme, its identity. This gathering may take days, weeks, places. Only after she feels she has the right pieces does she begin to compose in large scale, collaging, drawing, layering. Once assembled, the piece may rest, lie fallow, aging in the studio, shifting subtly under its own weight, until the moment feels right to finalize: to seal, to fix, to mark. The waiting is part of the work—a kind of listening, space for intuition and resonance.
Immediate execution
Other works unfold more spontaneously. Luna may draw or paint a subject live, responding to moment, emotion, subject. In these cases the work is more performative: folds of charcoal, gestures of brush, spontaneous addition of found elements. Sometimes she allows the piece to extend for days, responding, intervening, letting material suggest new paths. These works carry the energy of immediacy, of presence, of risk.
Both modes feed one another: the deliberate patience of collage and the electric urgency of live drawing. Together they map the artist’s internal landscape and external commitments, to memory, identity, narrative.
The Conceptual Thread / Narrative Framework
At the core of Luna’s œuvre is a family of series, interwoven, interdependent, dialoguing. Though each series may emphasize a particular theme or medium, they belong to a larger, ongoing narrative: the story of LGBTQIA+ lives, of identity, of becoming.
Even commissioned pieces do not stand alone. Each new portrait, collage, or drawing is a chapter in a continuum. They echo, respond, reflect across time and space. Recurring motifs, the same leaf, a certain weave of charcoal lines, a patched fragment, resonate between works, creating silent bridges. The viewer who has seen one work may sense its kin in another, perceive the lineage, the conversation.
In Luna’s vision, identity is never static. It is layered, branching, repeating. Her concept is not to tell isolated biographies but to weave a mosaic of experiences and voices, where each artwork amplifies and recontextualizes the others. Through this interlaced structure, she dismantles binary narratives and reclaims complexity, multiplicity, and the fluid continuum of lives lived in flux.
The Value (Artistic, Emotional, Unique)
What gives Luna’s work its profound value is not just technique or concept, but the intertwined narrative, the authenticity, the presence of intimacy on a grand scale.
Every piece is unique, but even more: it is exquisite, a delicacy of gesture and material, a tension between fragility and monument. The organic fragments, the layered surfaces, the drawn lines, they carry scars, memory, presence. They are not manufactured or generic; they are singular.
But beyond singularity lies continuity: the way each work resonates with others, how motifs repeat, echoes migrate, themes evolve. The viewer doesn’t just own or see a piece; they enter a narrative network. The emotional weight of knowing that nine works, or thirty, or a hundred belong to a shared story magnifies their meaning.
In a world saturated with images, Luna’s art stands apart because it is lived, rooted, persisting. Its worth is ethical as much as aesthetic: it asserts the dignity, visibility, and complexity of queer lives. Purchasing or exhibiting these works is an act of bearing witness to that ongoing story.