What does it mean for a body to carry a history? Join us at Autograph for this special artist talk.

Artists Tarrah Krajnak and Koyoltzintli use photography to resist the erasure of Indigenous, feminist bodies – creating images that carry personal and ancestral memory across generations.

Born in Lima and adopted by a white working-class American family, Tarrah Krajnak explores the gaps in her personal history against the backdrop of Peru’s political upheaval, using archival photographs to imagine a past that remains fragmented and unresolved. Koyoltzintli reflects on how Indigenous origin stories and cultural traditions sustain connection across generations, considering the land as a living relation between memory, ceremony and ancestry. Their practices meet in a concern with the body and land as sites where histories, unearthed and unearthing, take on new meaning as they return.

Join us in the gallery as Tarrah Krajnak and Koyoltzintli come together in London to reflect on their work and practices. Surrounded by their works in Autograph’s new exhibition Our Bodies Have Been Bridges (https://autograph.org.uk/exhibitions/our-bodies-have-been-bridges), the conversation will open up intersecting perspectives on indigenous, diasporic feminist practices – affirming both the body and memory as active, generative forces.

Chaired by Bindi Vora, curator of Our Bodies Have Been Bridges.

The ticket price for this event is £5. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If this ticket price is unaffordable for you, please get in touch with Ishy at Ishy@autograph-abp.co.uk about free ticketing options.

Read more on Autograph's website (https://autograph.org.uk/events/our-bodies-have-been-bridges-artist-talk/)

About the Speakers

Koyoltzintli (born 1983, New York City, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Ulster County, New York. She was raised on the Pacific coast and in the Andean mountains of Ecuador. Her work revolves around sound, ancestral technologies, ritual, and storytelling, blending collaborative processes with personal narratives.

She is interested in a sensitive, intuitive approach to documentary style photography, unravelling the tension between the obscuring and unveiling of identity, knowing and unknowing, desire and fear.

Tarrah Krajnak (born 1979, Lima, Peru) is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor of Art at UCLA, and is represented by Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne.

Krajnak is the recipient of the 2025 Henri Cartier-Bresson Creation Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles, and the Dorothea Lange- Paul Taylor Prize among others. She has published three books including El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan (DAIS 2021), Master Rituals II: Weston's Nudes (TBW 2022) and RePose (FW Books 2023).

Bindi Vora is an interdisciplinary artist of Kenyan-Indian heritage, associate lecturer at LCC and senior curator at Autograph, London. She interested in how ideas of resistance and resilience are shaped by our surroundings, histories and lived experiences.

Her practice often combines glyphs and an archive of personal and found photographs procured over the last decade to draw on the intersections between language, culture and their inherent power dynamics.

Your Visit to Autograph

Everyone is welcome at Autograph. Planning a visit? Have a look at our Visit Us (https://autograph.org.uk/visit-us) page to find out more about getting to the gallery, accessibility and more.

Limited tickets: This event takes place in the gallery, there are limited tickets to ensure the best experience.

Accessible venue: Autograph welcomes people with all types of disabilities.

Step free: Our building and entrance is step free. A wheelchair accessible lift goes to all floors.

Discussion: The panel discussion will be seated, and take place in Gallery 1 on the ground floor

Seating: This is a seated event

Ticketing policy

The ticket price for this event is £5. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If this ticket price is unaffordable for you, please get in touch at info@autograph-abp.co.uk

Autograph's events are very popular, and often sell out. To provide the best experience for everyone, tickets must be booked in advance for this event, and will not be available on the door . If you need to cancel your ticket for any reason, you can receive a refund up to 24 hours before the start of the event.

Autograph supported by

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Autograph ABP Registered in England no. 2285116 | Registered Charity no. 1127712

Images: 1) Koyoltzintli, Obsidian Woman, 2019. From the series Meda. Courtesy the artist. 2) Autograph. Photograph by Kate Elliott.

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