Ixquic Bendita

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simbiosiscolective@gmail.com

0688/64890821

Multidisciplinary Artist · Cultural Worker · Alchemist of Everyday Resistance

Born in the post-war lands of Guatemala, Ixquic Bendita, also known as Julieta Lara, is a self-taught and fiercely rooted multidisciplinary artist whose work emerges from the fertile ground of community resistance, hip hop culture, and decolonial imagination.

Her creative path, which began in the late 1990s, transcends traditional boundaries and embraces a constellation of forms: music, painting, poetry, papier-mâché, performance, culinary arts, and cultural management. Ixquic’s art is raw, non-academic, political, and deeply cathartic — a lifeline and a ritual of transformation.

Her aesthetic and vision have been shaped not by institutions, but by lived experience, popular education, and deep collaborations with contemporary Guatemalan artists such as Margarita Kenefik, Luis Escobedo, Deborah Duflon, Aníbal López, Regina José Galindo, Veronique Simar, and through powerful collectives and spaces like Caja Lúdica, Casa Bizarra, Casa Comal, and La Wachoch.

Ixquic’s work has travelled across borders — from grassroots festivals like Octubre Azul in Guatemala to international stages such as Rototom Sunsplash in Europe. Her performances and installations pulse with ancestral memory, street rebellion, and the embodied wisdom of marginalized bodies. Each creation is a political offering, a healing gesture, a spark of collective fire.

As co-founder and driving force of Simbiosis Kolective, she weaves together art, community organizing, and cultural resistance — creating spaces where art is not a luxury, but a necessity for survival and joy.

For Ixquic, art is a living organism. It bleeds, heals, dances, and transforms. It is not created for galleries, but for barrios, plazas, kitchens, and the streets — where the people are, where the wounds are, where the magic begins.

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