Photo-Theraphy Collage
Photo-narrative, montage, and performative re-staging of personal trauma
London, UK, 2025
mysticalhera@gmail.com
Instagram: @hera.s.santos
Hḗrā is a trans creative practitioner and activist whose work spans poetry,
performance, visual arts, and installation. Their practice explores themes of gender, identity, trauma, memory, ecology, and movement, using a range of mediums to craft an experimental, biographical expression layered with abstraction.Hḗrā’s artistic journey navigates the intersections of these complex themes, offering a deep and nuanced exploration of both personal and societal narratives.
They are also a workshop facilitator working at the intersection of social change, wellbeing and identity, creating spaces for dialogue, reflection, and collective transformation.
Education
School Cascais Theater Practitioner
Portugal, Cascais
2015
Chemist Gallery — The Flip Side of The Coin
Performance & Installation
London, UK — 2025
Ugly Duck — Follow Y/Our River
Performance & Installation
London, UK — 2025
Newcastle Contemporary — Speak The Truth
Co-Performance with Delaine Le Bas
Newcastle, UK — 2025
V&A East — SEMARÃ ECLOSE
Performance & Sound
London, UK — 2025
Land Art — The Ruins of HER(A)
Durational Performance
Simena, Turkey — 2025
Turner Prize, Tate Britain — Incipit Vita Nova
Video Performance co-performed with Delaine Le Bas
Presented as part of her nomination
London, UK — 2024
180 Strand — I WANT TO BELIEVE
Co-Performance in collaboration with Esben Weile Kjær
London, UK — 2024
Tramway — DELANIA: 17071965 UNFOLDING
Co-Performance with Delaine Le Bas
Glasgow International Festival
Glasgow, UK — 2023
Borough Gallery — Follow Y/Our River
Performance & Book Making Wrokshop
London, UK — 2023
Vienna Secession — Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life / A New Life Is Beginning
Co-Performance with Delaine Le Bas
Vienna, Austria — 2023
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix — LINGUIST ENGINEERING
Co-Performance with Delaine Le Bas
International Tour: Gorki Theater
London, UK / Berlin, Germany — 2023
F WORD Magazine — Issue LAYERED
“I’m Made of This Earth” project (Performance, Photography, Poetry)
Collaboration with Jessie Silver
London, UK — 2025
Follow Y/Our River
Self-Publishing and the Photobook Project
With Paula Roush, Tamara Stoll & Hḗrā Santos, published by msdm publications
London, UK — 2023
Doesn’t Exist Magazine — Issue 4
Official Tribute to John Waters
Styling, Creative Direction & Production
London, UK — 2022
Doesn’t Exist Magazine — Issue 3
Tribute to Michelangelo Antonioni
Modelling & Creative Direction
London, UK — 2022
CARPARK Magazine — Issue 15
Modelling, Styling & Production
Paris, France — 2022
News From Nowhere — Lockdown
Performance, Styling & Production
In collaboration with msdm publications & CARPARK Magazine (Issue 14)
London, UK — 2020
Marathon Missile
Performance, Styling & Production
Collaboration with Paula Roush
Published by msdm publications
London, UK — 2019
CARPARK Magazine — Issue 13
Styling & Creative Direction
London, UK — 2019
HHUUGG Zine 1/2/3 + Remix
Performance, Styling & Production
Collaboration with Paula Roush
Published by msdm publications
London, UK — 2018–2020
Positive East — What London Means to You?
Mapping & Creative Writing
Collecting and sharing stories of London
London, UK — 2025
Spectra — Queer Ecological Outer & Inner Landscapes
Creative Writing
London, UK — 2025
Positive East — What Pride Means to Me?
Collective Collage
London, UK — 2025
Positive East — Activism / Social Change
Bookmaking
London, UK — 2025
Spectra — Queer Ecological Outer & Inner Landscapes
Creative Writing with the Young Adults Group
London, UK — 2025
Cody Dock — Books of Water (Tilda River), Totally Thames Festival
Bookmaking & Movement
London, UK — 2024
LGBTQ+ Centre, St. Margaret’s House — Identity & Collage Making
London, UK — 2024
Copeland Gallery - Books of Water (River Peck)
Bookmaking & Suminagashi
London, UK — 2024