Luca Santana (b. 1999, California; lives and works in New York) is a nonbinary painter working with oil, raw canvas, and charcoal to examine decaying histories, control, and devotion. Their practice is influenced by Mexican/Irish-Catholic family archives, transfigurement, animation, and the objectifying gaze. Santana’s work ruminates on one’s capacity to metabolize narratives of sexual violence into opportunities for devotion and rapture.