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
Born in Mexico City and an enthusiast of light, Jésica Elizondo is an interdisciplinary artist who develops an ongoing investigation into the processes of transformation and activation of space–time–matter within the live arts.
Her practice centers on spatial conceptualization and lighting creation, understanding light as an active body within choreographic composition. She shifts its function beyond the merely technical toward a relational, spatial, and political dimension. With a particular interest in other forms of corporeality, she articulates her work through processes of listening and contemplation, constructing dispositifs in which light, sound, and body operate as interdependent systems: light is a body.
She is co-creator and co-director of Poética sobre la escucha (2024), CUERPO NO CUERPO (2022), ANÓNIMA (2021), and Disposición del Ser (2016), under the name EO Project. As a performer, she has participated in the projects LEIB: What Can a Body Do? (2025), LEIB: What Does a Body Desire? (2022), THE MATTER OF TIME (2022), OSEA (2022), and THE EMPTY BODY (2017).
Her lighting designs have received four LIT Lighting Design Awards (Switzerland): in 2024, in the categories Theater Performance Design for CUERPO NO CUERPO and Stage Lighting Design for LEIB: What Does a Body Resist?; in 2022, in Theater Performance Design for ROADTRIP; and in 2021, in Stage Lighting for DISOLVER. She also received a Global Architecture Design Award in the Light Art category in 2024.
In 2020, she published the book Iluminando espacios, a compilation of thoughts from more than 50 Mexican artists, and 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 three times for Best Lighting Design at the National Prize for Contemporary Choreographic Creation in 2019, 2011, and 2008.
She is currently a member of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA) 2023–2026 and collaborates with various artists and collectives who share affinities in artistic thinking.
