Project director
Luz is visual artist, art curator, astrologer with a master degree in Observational astronomy
Her practice investigates the relationship between nature and culture. She began as a painter in 2004, and since 2010 her work has become transdisciplinary. In 2014, her practice took a new direction with the realization of nature’s essential role in personal and social balance. She has exhibited in cities such as New York, New Delhi, Beijing, Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires among others. Her current work weaves together cultural astronomy and the study of the mineral realm, exploring how different civilizations have interpreted the cosmos. She has developed projects in diverse landscapes such as the Arctic circle, the Arabian Desert, and the Panamanian jungle among others.
In 2022, she founded The League of Stars
Communication team
Greece team member
Nahuel Faggiano developed his connection to cooking from an early age, inspired by the time spent with his grandmother. Through simple flavors, honest ingredients, and family memories, he shaped an approach to cooking rooted in care and essentiality.
He trained at the Argentine Institute of Gastronomy (IAG) in Buenos Aires and also studied journalism and voice training, tools that allow him to communicate cooking as a cultural and emotional experience.
He currently develops a clean, real, and conscious culinary practice, based on locally sourced products and techniques that respect the integrity of the ingredients. Traveling through different countries expanded his perspective and confirmed that each territory can be understood through its flavors.
He seeks an honest, sensitive, and increasingly simple cuisine: choosing less but better, highlighting the identity of each ingredient and creating authentic experiences around the table.
Egypt team member
Matías Castagnola is an individual and group psychotherapist with over a decade of clinical experience. He began his professional work in Buenos Aires within the public healthcare system, contributing to substance abuse treatment programs in group settings, where he developed a strong and lasting commitment to therapeutic group processes. This engagement led him to train as a Therapeutic Theatre facilitator and to design and lead a theatre workshop program for clinical populations, including a stage production involving inpatients in addiction treatment alongside professional actors.
In recent years, he has continued his professional development in Berlin, specializing in psychodrama and experiential group methodologies. He has facilitated therapeutic groups in diverse clinical and community contexts and maintains a private practice in Berlin, where he works with both individuals and groups. His clinical approach integrates artistic and psychotherapeutic methods to deepen the understanding of trauma, attachment, addiction, and existential crises within collective settings, fostering meaningful and sustainable processes of reflection and change.
Archive’s curatorial team & Egypt team member
Born in France, Camille Cousin is a visual arts curator and exhibition producer. She holds a degree in cultural management and curating from Buenos Aires, where she worked for over a decade. As programming and production manager at Club Cultural Matienzo, she helped establish one of Buenos Aires' most vibrant cultural venues. She later co-founded Dinámica and Honeycomb, two exhibition spaces dedicated to Argentine and international artists, with a focus on urban art and site-specific installations. In 2016, she moved to Berlin, working as an independent curator alongside artist Luz Peuscovich, and collaborating with institutions such as Urban Nation museum, Pictoplasma festival, and gallery Michael Janssen. Since 2022, she has been based in Marseille, where she led artistic projects at the agency of artists in exile and now works as an independent curator while managing communications and public relations for Fraeme, an association that organizes contemporary art exhibitions and an art fair.
Archive’s curatorial team
al and material culture in relation to terrestrial and celestial practices and mythologies, tracing how images, objects, and language shape cultural memory, origins, and political imaginaries. She is committed to co-creating anti-extractive spaces of learning and mutual aid that honor both the magical and the material conditions of our time. She writes on Substack at Las Flores del Mar, where she shares reflections on myth, art, monstrosity, astrology, politics, and the magic of language, and convenes the Radical Book Club for Underworld Readers devoted to collective study of critical texts, and insurgent reading practices.
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Madeleine Botet de Lacaze is performer and astrologer based in Mallorca.
Her artistic and performance work is interdisciplinary working at the intersection of performance, queer theory and spiritual practices to address identity, belonging and presence. Through powerful visual language she creates intimate performances which question our perception of corporeality and material symbolism.
She is the founder of Astrology for Artists, a platform dedicated to unlocking the creative and transformative power of astrology, rooted in the belief that life itself is a creative act.
She holds a BA in Cinematography from Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and a MA in Visual Language of Performance from Wimbledon College (UAL) in London. She has presented work at SPILL, Performatorium, Chelsea Theatre, In Between Time and CCA Andratx among others. She has performed for artists such as Marina Abramovic at the Serpentine, Ron Athey at Fierce Festival and has been mentored by Franko B, Kira O'Reilly, Ron Athey and Tim Etchells.
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nicola van straaten is a south african interdisciplinary artist and astrologer working across different mediums with a focus on body, time, spirit and language. their work starts from the understanding that material systems emerge from belief systems and that meaningful transformation begins with investing in the reconfiguring of belief systems. their background is in dance, performance and english literature and they value developing creative work (alone and with others) that is orientated towards an applied decolonial philosophy. nicola is currently based in berlin and is an avid gardener, etymology enthusiast, relentless zine-maker and writer of bossy but poetic horoscopes.
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Mary Schuch (she/her) is steadily walking a resonant path and striving to remember the inherent relationality of all beings. Informed by her upbringing as a homeschooled pastor's kid and the eighth of eleven siblings, Mary is reclaiming her right to exploration and education through meditative multidisciplinary living. She is devoted to practices incorporating writing, music, art, astrology, and breadmaking. Mary’s reverence for contemplative time has grown through work in gardens, kitchens, on commercial lobster boats, and an oyster farm. She is originally from the Chicago area and currently lives on an island in Maine, USA.
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