performance / video / sculpture
LUCHADORAS is an art collective formed by Regina Franco Vera and Noora Alho. They first met in Kankaanpää art school (SAMK) in 2018. Despite the distance, one being in Mexico while the other in Finland, they continue to collaborate through collective writing, photo manipulation games and meditation.
Instagram: my.luchadora.diary
Luchadora is Spanish for a female wrestler. LUCHADORAS fight injustice, depression, inequality and cruelty with love and compassion.
Luchadoras explore the body, the environment and social structures through play, movement and spontaneity.
Our practice includes writing a daily interactive collective journal and connecting through meditation.
The collaboration has continued irl in 2025 with the collective's new work consisting videos, drawings, installations, ceramic sculptures and new crocheted masks exhibited in Pori during April and May 2025.
Exhibitions
2025
LUCHADORAS: to love the unloved
Teljäntori, Pori
The recent work researches the different characteristics of several insect species, their reproductional systems and social dynamics to protect their species, emphasazing the female.
LUCHADORAS view life as a wondrous thing, appreciating the tiniest details of the sacred nature, without forgetting playfulness and silliness.
Performances
2019
LUCHADORAS PLAYROOM
Pumppuklubi, Kankaanpää
2019
Play Studies
Kankaanpää Art School
