I am Sandra Zegarra Patow, a Peruvian multidisciplinary artist based in the Netherlands, holding a degree in Interactive Media Design from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. My practice moves between photography, video, sound, and installation, and is deeply informed by my Peruvian roots and lived experience within the Latin American diaspora.

My work creates intimate visual worlds through distorted forms and dreamy textures, guided by color palettes rooted in my cultural heritage and influenced by cinema and the visual language of magic realism.

I approach image-making as an intuitive and relational process, guided by belief, emotion, and connection. Rather than documenting reality, I translate inner landscapes shaped by memory, nostalgia, and cultural inheritance.

Culture, tradition, and history form the backbone of my practice. I am interested in how identity is constructed, transmitted, and transformed across generations and geographies. Nostalgia acts as a recurring thread in my work, not as longing for the past, but as a living force that connects personal memory with collective experience.

Strong women play a central role in my artistic universe. Their resilience, humor, sensuality, and contradictions continually inspire me. Through my work, I explore femininity as both power and play, weaving in elements of sexuality, irony, and subtle sarcasm to create spaces where vulnerability and strength coexist. In an increasingly fast-paced and fragmented world, my practice is rooted in slowness, attention, and care. I am drawn to projects that allow for meaningful encounters with people, places, and stories and that invite viewers to pause, feel, and reflect. Whether working visually or sonically, I seek to build immersive experiences that foster connection and dialogue.

Ultimately, my work aims to open new ways of seeing and sensing the world. I believe art can shift perspectives, create intimacy, and offer alternative narratives of belonging. That transformative space where the personal meets the collective is where my practice lives.