Lorena Velásquez

Lorena Velásquez is a Guatemalan visual artist trained in art history and painting, working with acrylic and oil on canvas, and on recycled cardboard and board. Birds are the recurring subject of her painting: the figure of the bird serves to reflect on nature and on the relationship people build with it, between curiosity and sociability on one side and shyness and diffidence on the other.

Her practice moved into furniture for the Guatemala Designs by Hand exhibition at Milan Design Week 2026, where Studio Lábrica presented the Mesa Cocktail Capirucho and Mesa Lateral Capirucho made with her from solid conacaste wood, combining artisanal turning with contemporary design and reinterpreting the capirucho, the traditional Guatemalan wooden toy, as a sculptural language.