Artistic Research
of memory, embodiment,
organic matter, and collective dynamics.

Karin Verbru is a multidisciplinary artist-researcher whose work explores the human body and organic matter as living archives of memory and transformation. Her practice weaves together collective rituals involving voice, clay, water, and somatic practices (movement and butoh)  to surface embodied knowledge and activate materials as co-creators.

She specializes in interdisciplinary experimental arts and creates intermedial works that combine painting, photography, video, performance, and installation—always in dialogue with natural elements like earth, roots, charcoal, and minerals. Her processes are shaped by resonance, time, intention, and direct material contact—transforming artistic creation into a relational and sensorial inquiry.

In Rastros, a collaborative documentary and installation, she invited women navigating breast cancer to map their bodily memories with clay. The resulting video, photographs, and imprinted fabrics formed the basis of an exhibition at the Women’s Museum in Mexico City.  Exploring the importance of touch and bodily maps. She also self-published the photo book De barro es mi mirada, tejido mi recuerdo with the photographs of the process.

Verbru holds a background in Literature (UNAM), with additional studies in Documentary Film (San Carlos) and Cinematography (ENAC–UNAM). Her work has been presented internationally, including at the Stendhal Festival in Ireland and the Lo Mon Contemporáneo residency in Spain. Since 2020, she has collaborated with Radio Nopal, and recently contributed the sound piece Resonancia Viva—where vibration and intention interact with water—to the exhibition Otr^s Mund^s at Museo Tamayo (2025).

Born in 1997 in Mexico City, her work is grounded in wild, collective experimentation and a belief in the intelligence of matter.