At Cháchara, OFFF Sevilla teams up once again with Graficatessen and LAB Sevilla to bring together voices that expand the map of the graphic and the narrative.
This year’s guests include Zesar Bahamonte, a Seville-born muralist with international recognition, Ana Penyas, the first woman to receive Spain’s National Comic Award, and Lucía Types, with her sharp, fresh perspective on empowerment and contemporary identity.
THE EMPOWERING COLORFUL ART OF LUCÍA TYPES
CHÁCHARA, in collaboration with Graficatessen and LAB Sevilla.
Lucía is a Spanish illustrator who loves to empower people through creative and colorful messages that remind everyone of their worth.
Her art is a form of advocacy. Through a feminist, intersectional, and trans-inclusive lens, Lucía addresses issues like fatphobia, eating disorders, racism, and mental health. Drawing from her own experiences, she brings honesty and emotional depth to her work, turning personal struggles into collective visibility.
She explores a wide range of techniques —from digital illustration to screen printing, markers, and acrylics— always drawn to bright, expressive colour palettes.
She has been featured in international publications such as Geek Art Book – An Anthology (Vol. 3), Adobe Magazine, Gràffica, Creative Digest, Staf Magazine, Design Ideas, and DesignTaxi.
Her clients include Bedsider.org, Amazon Prime Video, Lancôme Paris, Walker Books, American Greetings, HarperCollins, SheIn, Lomography, and others.
NATIONAL AWARD AND GRAPHIC VOICE OF A SILENCED GENERATION
CHÁCHARA, in collaboration with Graficatessen and LAB Sevilla.
Ana Penyas (Valencia, 1987) is an illustrator and graphic novel author. In 2018, she became the first woman to win Spain’s National Comic Award for her book “We’re All Just Fine,” which tells the story of her grandmothers, Maruja and Herminia, and gives voice to a silenced generation.
Penyas studied Industrial Design and Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where she discovered her passion for illustration. Her main influences include Brecht Evens, Laura Carlin, Gipi, and Jorge González. Her work focuses on social issues, driven by a strong sense of commitment, represented with a documentary-style sensitivity. Photography and documentary films have played an essential role in shaping her storytelling approach.
She has participated in artist residencies in Porto, showcased her work at the Ilustrísima fair in Madrid, and featured at the Tenderete festival in Valencia. Additionally, she has held solo exhibitions in Lisbon and Valencia. Her work has been published by Mil razones and Libros del K.O., and has been highlighted on platforms such as MipetitMadrid, elHype, and Bostezo.
Penyas is also a regular illustrator for Pikara Magazine. In 2021, she published “Todo bajo el sol,” a graphic novel about urban speculation and mass tourism on the Eastern Spanish coast. The book received the ACDCómic Award for Best National Work in 2022. Penyas now lives in Seville, where she continues her artistic and graphic work.
ZESAR BAHAMONTE, MURALIST EXPLORING THE TIES BETWEEN THE PERSONAL AND THE COLLECTIVE
CHÁCHARA, in collaboration with Graficatessen and LAB Sevilla.
Zesar Bahamonte is a visual and urban artist born in Seville in 1986. He began his creative journey through graffiti and comics. Today, his artistic practice moves between muralism, studio painting, drawing, and installation, always engaging with space and time concepts.
His work explores the ties between the personal and the collective, between memory and reflection on the present. Bahamonte’s murals highlight the significance of affection, friendship, and love, featuring striking and enigmatic characters who play music, drink wine, wander through the streets, or ride bicycles.
He is recognised for his loose brushstroke, his expressive use of colour, contrasts, and symmetries, as well as a poetic style that draws on popular imagery, and social critique.
Bahamonte has a diverse and extensive career. He has created murals and painted façades across Europe and Latin America, leaving his mark in cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, Lisbon, Mexico City, São Paulo, and Paris.
Among his recent projects are murals for Rexenera Fest in Galicia, Cirque du Soleil in Madrid, and the European Commission in Belgium, as well as the Writer's Block Festival in the Netherlands. In 2024, he created the intervention on the façade of Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville and illustrated one of the covers for the collective project of illustration ‘The Sevillaner.’
He also collaborates frequently with galleries and art spaces and is a member of ÁHÊ Taller collective.
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