Light is body
Light communicates
Light is time
Light is form
Light is movement
Light is sound
Light is space
Light trembles
Light divides or integrates
Light composes a space to be inhabited
Light fragments the observer's space
Light reveals or deceives
Light separates and makes invisible an observing public
Light incites you as a passive or active actor
Light as a luminous body
Light is an entity of small corpuscles called photons full of energy
Light is reflection and refraction
Light is duality between what is tangible and intangible
Light can be one or the sum of all
Light all or nothing
Light body
Light performance
Light choreography
Interdisciplinary artist and lighting designer
Jésica Elizondo is an artist passionate about light, who explores through her work the processes of transformation and the activation of space–time–matter within the performing arts. Her practice focuses on spatial conceptualization and luminous creation, with a special interest in bodies as containers of choreographic knowledge. Since 2017, she has been a member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte).
She is the co-creator and co-director of Poética sobre la escucha (2024), CUERPO NO CUERPO (2022), ANÓNIMA(2021), and Disposición del ser (2016), projects developed under the EO Project label. As a performer, she has participated in LEIB: ¿qué puede un cuerpo? (2025) and LEIB: ¿qué desea un cuerpo? (2022) by Shantí Vera / Cuatro X Cuatro; SALTAR (2022), a Mexico–UK video art project by Melissa Herrada (Mexico) and Cordelia Grierson (United Kingdom), funded by the British Council; and EL CUERPO VACÍO (2017), also by Shantí Vera / Cuatro X Cuatro. These works have been presented in Mexico, Germany, Peru, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and other countries.
Her lighting designs have been recognized with four LIT Lighting Design Awards (Switzerland): in 2024, in the categories Theater Performance Design for CUERPO NO CUERPO and Stage Lighting Design for LEIB: ¿qué resiste un cuerpo?; in 2022, in Theater Performance Design for ROADTRIP; and in 2021, in Stage Lighting for DISOLVER. In 2024, she also received a Global Architecture Design Award in the Light Art category (France).
In 2020, she published Iluminando espacios, a compilation of reflections by more than fifty Mexican artists on light in stage creation. That same year, she received an Honorable Mention at the LIT Lighting Design Awards for her work on Pic-Nic at New Bond. In Mexico, she has been awarded the Best Lighting Design at the National Contemporary Choreographic Creation Dance Award in 2019, 2011, and 2008.
She is currently a member of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA) 2023–2026, supported by FONCA, and collaborates with various artists and collectives engaged in the exploration of contemporary artistic thought. With more than seventy lighting designs for stage, her work has been presented in major venues across Mexico and in more than a dozen countries.
