Irasema Ezcurdia was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. A potter and miniaturist with a multidisciplinary practice, she also works with photography and video editing. Based in Mexico City, she has contributed to workshops as both a teacher and collaborator, creating pieces that range from functional objects to female and animalistic figures.

Her work is grounded in a Latin American sensibility often described as magical realism: a strategy that introduces the fantastic without breaking the internal logic of the real. In her ceramic series, the “believable surprise” emerges precisely through the tension between naturalism and the unexpected.

In her statement, Irasema reflects on the idea of humans as sculptures formed from earth, and on the limits of “creating life” in a literal sense. Pottery, for her, is not supernatural—it is a naturalistic play with forms already latent in the material world. What feels like life in a piece is not bestowed from outside, but arises as a continuity with the life already present in earth itself.

This is why she calls her perspective “magical naturalism.” The credibility of her human-and-animal forms does not depend on immaterial spirits, but on the material emergence of emotionality—sentiment as something already possible within matter, extended through action. In this sense, “magic” is not the supernatural, but a new and harmonious veracity that appears in the ceramic object.

She has exhibited at Mandarake in Tokyo and at ArtToyCon and El Bastión in Mexico City. As a visual poet, she received first place in Latin America and sixth place worldwide in the international contest Mili Dueli in Bosnia and Herzegovina.