Stefania Tejada is a Colombian-born, Paris-based artist whose practice engages spiritual iconography, embodied memory, and ancestral lineage as living structures of thought. In Magdalena, she articulates a multilayered cosmology in which spiritual archetypes, reincarnation, colonial history, technological consciousness, and the artist’s interior landscape converge within a single, charged image. The composition is organized around the gravitational presence of Mary Magdalene, who operates simultaneously as anchor, passage, and field of force. From her figure emanate the symbolic, emotional, and conceptual currents that animate the work, assembling a constellation of meanings into a visual theology grounded in the body, the feminine, and the continuous process of becoming.

Commissioned by Christian Levett for FAMM — Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins, France, the painting marks Tejada’s second institutional acquisition. The work approaches identity as layered and relational, while reflecting on the ethical responsibility of image-making within a culture shaped by saturation, visibility, and circulation. Photographic documentation by Cecy Young.

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