Arca is one of the most visionary and genre-defying artists of her generation. Working across music, performance, visual art and technology, she has built a practice that challenges conventional ideas of identity, authorship and transformation. Through works that blur the boundaries between the physical and digital, the human and machine, the intimate and the monumental, Arca has become a defining voice in contemporary culture.

Born Alejandra Ghersi in Caracas, Venezuela, Arca first emerged as a groundbreaking producer and musician whose radical approach to sound reshaped the landscape of experimental and popular music alike. Her collaborations with artists including Björk, Rosalía, FKA twigs and Kanye West established her as one of the most influential creative figures working today, while her own albums expanded the possibilities of electronic music through a deeply personal exploration of gender, embodiment and self-invention.

Arca’s relationship with CIRCA began in 2022 when she launched the platform’s annual programme, AND NOW WE BUILD WORLDS, with Untitled, a landmark New Year commission broadcast across public screens in London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Milan, New York, Seoul and Tokyo. Blurring the boundaries between painting and artificial intelligence, the project transformed thirty-one of Arca’s original mixed-media paintings into an evolving digital artwork through machine learning technology. Created in collaboration with CIRCA x Dazed Class of 2021 finalist Christina Anagnostou, the commission marked Arca’s emergence as a visual artist on the global stage and demonstrated her ability to move fluidly between disciplines, technologies and forms of expression. Alongside the public commission, CIRCA published a series of editions including Yōkai Destrudo, extending the project’s exploration of mutation, hybridity and world-building into physical form.

Whether working with sound, performance, image-making or emerging technologies, Arca approaches art as a space of continual transformation. Her work proposes new ways of understanding identity not as something fixed, but as something constantly evolving and becoming. Through an uncompromising commitment to experimentation and self-determination, she continues to expand the boundaries of contemporary culture and inspire new generations of artists, musicians and thinkers around the world.