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 creative practitioner whose work spans poetry,performance and visual arts.Their practice explores themes of gender, identity, trauma, memory, ecology,and movement.
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
Withworth Gallery — Voices of the City
Protest & Sign Making
Manchester, UK — 2026
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