Sara Coriat & Irene Luna

 ARTIST’S PROFILE

Irene Luna

The artistic practice of Irene Luna (Madrid, 1992) develops from a multidisciplinary approach with a strongly conceptual character, focusing her research primarily on photography and sculpture. Both disciplines—linked through their relationship to scale and their capacity to reproduce reality—operate in her work as fundamental tools for questioning the ways in which we perceive, remember, and assign meaning to everyday experience.

Her process often begins with personal experiences that the artist abstracts until they become shared structures. Through direct formal operations—such as altering scale, using common materials, or translating ideas across different mediums—Luna constructs works that are both striking and literal, where what is represented clearly refers to fragments of reality. At the same time, these shifts introduce a distance that places the works in an ambiguous dimension, close to the logic of chilfdhood, where the familiar becomes strange and is tinged with a certain nostalgia.

At the core of her work lies a continuous attention to memory, repetition, and the habits that shape our relationship with our surroundings, whether physical or technological. Projects such as Dibújame un cordero or Selfie address these questions through distinct but complementary approaches—from the evocation of lived spaces through emptiness and absence, to the re-signification of personal image archives in order to question immediacy, accumulation, and the loss of meaning in contemporary photography.

In her recent work, Irene Luna continues to explore how seemingly simple procedures can activate a strong symbolic and perceptual charge, granting ordinary objects and images an evocative power that engages the viewer through what is familiar yet difficult to explain. Her work thus proposes a space of slow attention where personal experience, collective memory, and contemporary modes of representation intersect.

Sara Coriat

Sara Coriat (Madrid, 1989) is Artistic Director and Fair Coordinator of CAN Art Fair, a contemporary art fair with editions in Madrid and Ibiza, where she has been working for over seven years. Her role focuses on international gallery scouting and relations, defining the fair’s artistic direction, and overseeing communications, institutional partnerships, and the fair’s curated sections. 

Alongside her work at CAN Art Fair, she has curated exhibitions at galleries such as Arniches 26 and Ponce+Robles, as well as independent projects including “Lo de siempre, donde siempre” at La Mancha in Madrid, an initiative that acted as a catalyst within the local art scene, bringing together a younger generation of artists in one of the bars where Madrid’s art community regularly gathers. She has written curatorial texts for a range of artistic projects and has taught communication strategies within the Master’s Degree in Art Market at Barreira School.

She previously worked for two years at the Spanish Cultural Center in Miami (CCEMiami) as Visual Arts Coordinator, supported by a cultural management grant from AECID, where she developed and oversaw projects with artists including Eugenio Ampudia together with Blanca de la Torre, Susana Guerrero, Beatriz Ruibal, and Cuban artists Rocío García and Ángela Valella. With a background in journalism, she initiated her professional career as a lifestyle, culture, and gastronomy writer at ELLE magazine were she worked for four years, and has contributed to publications such as Condé Nast Traveler, AD, Tapas, Man on the Moon, and Viajes by El Mundo.

Read about their residency project below in their own words…

“We divide roles, but we’re also open to swapping them, stretching our ways of working to find friction points that lead to new ideas.

During our time at La Moissie we want to inhabit an open laboratory, guided by observation, play, open-ended questions, mutual support, and an exploration of each other’s creative processes. We imagine setting small daily challenges: choosing a random word to guide the day, opening a book to let a page shape the hours ahead, or responding to prompts through visuals or text. Observing patterns in the surroundings, inventing everyday rituals. These actions would act as sparks to think and create together, without pressure around the outcome.

Even though we spend a lot of time together personally and support each other closely at work, this will be the first time we sit down to collaborate hand in hand. We’re curious to discover what this process, this experiment, might be like. We’re coming with open ears and minds, ready to learn from each other, to share ideas that might take us further. To accompany each other’s processes without intruding, and to create a space for dialogue with room for difference, tension, play, and care.”

Manoir de «La Moissie», Boulevard de la Moissie, 24170 Belvès, France

Tel : 05.53.29.93.49  |  Móvil: 07.81.18.79.30  |  manoir@lamoissie.fr  |  Instagram

Manoir de «La Moissie», Boulevard de la Moissie, 24170 Belvès, France

Tel : 05.53.29.93.49  |  Móvil: 07.81.18.79.30
manoir@lamoissie.fr  |  Instagram