Aurora Coddou

 ARTIST’S PROFILE

Aurora Coddou is a Chilean writer, photographer, and journalist whose work carries a deep sense of nostalgia. Moving between words and images, she reflects on migration, belonging, and family histories, often guided by the spirit of Latin American magical realism. Her work as a journalist has been published in several outlets. 

She is the author of Cuatro Seis Dos, a photobook that blends poetry and photography to portray the experience of Latin American migration to Australia under the Work and Holiday visa. The book captures the fragile balance between yearning and discovery, absence and presence, memory and reinvention—a portrait of the migrant condition where home is both left behind and continually reimagined.

Read about Aurora‘s residency project in her own words… 

“I will deepen two projects in progress: La sangre no tiene memoria, a poetic photo-text work that explores inheritance and the ways memory slips, fades, and yet insists on living in the body and in language; and Bartolomé, a collection of short stories inspired by the Latin American idea of neighborhood (barrio), where community, intimacy, and loss intertwine to reveal the invisible threads that bind us together. “