A small series of four paintings recently created, inspired by the possible inner landscapes constructed within our bodies. This could be the beginning of new internal cartographies. This journey continues…
Let’s keep in touch: Mapping the periphery
The project title refers to the need to keep contact with the relationships that are always created, and too often lost, in the new territories in which we live.
The Las periféricas collective has embroidered three maps of three peripheral territories outside three different cities in Europe where the Colombian artists of the collective currently reside: Coburg, in Nuremberg; Ripollet, in Barcelona; and Älta in Stockholm. We are navigating in the communitarian aspect of our ancestral communities, supporting as women in a process of migration, recovering our roots through the act of embroidering, talking, caring together but in this case as a virtual meeting every Monday at 6:00 pm.
The collective @lasperifericas_colectiva is conformed by three colombian artists who migrated to Europe and have setablished here in Europe for more than 10 years. This project was born from the constant questioning of our identity as migrants living in 3 different countries: Germany, Spain and Sweden. For example, being hispanic women can limit and expand us at the same time. We live in areas where we are at risk of being racialized on the basis of ethnicity, gender, culture or religion. Our origins, manners and cultural constructions mean that interactions in a given area are very different, challenging us daily. We keep reinventing ourselves, we compare here and there, our present and our past constantly. You can read more about us here: Las periféicas
La vida es sagrada, Mural in Sickla, 2022. Life is sacred! We are protective women, caregivers, and creators of life. We are the womb of the Earth; this struggle is for a feminist state that protects nature and life. No more violence or social, sexual, and economic inequality against women.
Voces Disidentes, is an exhibition that showcases a series of interventions carried out in public spaces in Stockholm by the Creartivista_Kolectiva collective. All the interventions and performances made between 2020-2022 are documented in the following video, assembled by Celina Escher, a member of the collective: Voces_disidentes_video
Art Lab for All, since2014, Stockholm.
Art Lab for All its a project that wants to give access to the arts and creativity for all, finding new scenarios and diverse collectives to interchange and transform dificult social situations or daily life. By providing access to artistic means, Art Lab for All facilitates social integration and collective reflection. We work with creative workshops based on drawing, photography, video, dance, and performance. These workshops reinforce mutual empathy and caring, contributing in this way to a sense of belonging based on respect and solidarity. See more at: www.artlabforall.com or @art_lab_for_all on instagram
Collective Altar, PAVILJONG C, Tegelscenen & Konsthall C 21-22, Stockholm. This is an intervention designed as a mourning ritual and spoken-word performance. Our aim was to create a collective ritual that reflects our shared struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the ongoing economic and social crises. Through this ritual, we sought to address and question the various circumstances that divide us, such as: Our origins and the impact of colonialism, State separation and its consequences, Class disparities, Racial inequalities, Gender differences.
Amo a mi burrita, This is an exhibition held in Chia, Colombia, at La Tienda Gallery, where a selection of works related to bicycles was showcased. I created three GIFs and videos in animated neon colours for this exhibition. You can see some of the videos here: bi-cycle
El mito del Futuro virtual exhibition, 2021 México. A collective virtual exhibition supported by CEIIDA, (Centro de Investigación, Innovación de las Artes en Mexico). Every artist who has participated produced a .GIF collage image based in a grek myth. I have worked with Icarius myth, the piece is called “Fly neither too low nor too high”.
@creartivista_Kollektiva 2019-2022 was born from an artistic and creative perspective. We as collective, strive to create spaces of feminist, antiracist and anti patriarchal interchange for all. We believe in the importance of those spaces of support and understanding of the inherent politics in the people, as individuals in a common society.
Mind the movements exhibition, 2015 Stockholm.
A collective exhibition research at Mejan by Resoures 14, State of Migration: Sweden. The exhibition highlights the dominant stories of 4 swedish cities, urbanity and migration, and suggests other possible realities. We have studied the social organized movements -how the social and geographic directions change the city.
FIRST KKH WORLD TENNIS TABLE CHAMPIONSHIP /performance by Clown Project 2015
A Grant from EEMEDEL 2015. Participative performance at The Royal Academy of Arts of Stockholm. Performative action of duration one day
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Do you want to know about your future? / Performance, Moderna museet , Stockholm 2014
Electric City, Herring Town – Swedish-Japanese Undertainment At Its Best at Moderna Museet Bar. This performance by Clown project (duo artists) of one hour duration is based in the individual future of a collective. Curated by Christophe Charles, professor at Musashino Arts University of Tokio and Olav Westphalen professor at the Royal Academy of Arts of Stockholm.
SPA KKH // Performance, Stockholm 2014
A performative intervention by Clown Project at the Royal Academy of Arts of Stockholm. SPA KKH was part of The Normalcy Project, curated by Donatella Bernardi. Clown project is a collective that creates situations, experiences and social interactions at institutional artistic spaces.
Role// video performance, 2013 Stockholm.
Clothes as objects of identity. A child’s clothing as a social burden. Stereotypes and standards in the concrete forms of baby clothing, with texts, colors, and images that appear on them. The clothing used for this video is donated by friends and family of different nationalities, many with preconceived notions of gender and the child’s role printed on them. For example: trains, cars, “I don’t want to be a doctor, I want to be superhero etc.” thereby reducing a child’s identity and character to a piece of cloth. What is the need to print this social burden on a texture, in a design, a text or an image? Are blue and pink indestructible identity standards?
Video loop, 2012, Stockholm.
What the hell? was part of the solo exhibition “Entre el cielo y la tierra” at Galleri Mejan of the Royal Institute of Art during the summer of 2012. It explores themes of mimicry, repetition and discontent in a purgatorial space where anonymous figures struggle with frustrated attempts to live out their impossible individualism.
Blue elephant// Video loop, 2012, Stockholm
This video was part of “Propaganda”, an exhibition arranged by the Royal Institute of Art at Kulturhuset in Stockholm. Blue elephant is a self-reproducing dancer dressed in Ikea bags who multiplies herself each time her clones collide.
The Power tower game// Video and Performance, 2012, Stockholm
The Power Tower Game was part of “Propaganda”, an exhibition arranged by the Royal Institute of Art at Kulturhuset in Stockholm. It pits Art and Economics against one another in a game of Jenga, where they rearrange the blocks of a tower composed of galleries, centers, museums, artists, schools and cultural institutions. As they take turns, the tower grows higher and more precarious. It collapses. It’s rebuilt. Who wins?
This is not a dialogue // stop motion video, 2012, Stockholm
This is not a dialogue was part of the solo exhibition “Entre el cielo y la tierra” at Galleri Mejan of the Royal Institute of Art during the summer of 2012. Explores the theme of communication and how three objects can communicate and interchange ideas to became politics and develop different roles in their actions.
TvMejan// Green-screen tv Art streaming project
TV Mejan was a temporary online TV channel, developed and streamed live from a studio at the Royal Institute of Arts in Stockholm in April, 2012. Programming ranged from video sessions on war, sports, cooking, telemarketing, contemporary art and politics. It included interviews, panel discussions, breakfasts, brunches and performances focused on television, economics and art. The real-time performances were used as a tool to highlight political and social issues and media interactions through the body in a specific space with live broadcasting. Collective performances included That’s ok, Fake orgasm, Klas Eriksson, Monsters Maiden and Propaganda, and everyone was invited to participate on-camera and online.
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Let it snow, re-adaptation// video 3 min., 2010 Stockholm
Remembox // Web aplication/ Digitalent 2009 Barcelona
Web 2.0 is an application that allows users to create one or more digital time boxes where you can store and record memories and various events, to rediscover at a predetermined time by a simple game. With Remembox save and share memories, is easy and fun.
The logic that we intended intergenerational interaction, focusing on the population aged 45 and older. We alter the sense of time in the immediate society in which we are playing with the idea of storing and transmitting digitally, accessible and personalized information to be stored in the capsule. We therefore work with four formats digitally preserved memory: audio, video, text and image.
The Pop kitchen//videos, festival Maçart 2008
The Pop kitchen, is developed in three different videos. They are part of Festival Maçart, contemporary art festival in Maçanet de Cabrenys. Catalunya, 2008. Working in three different dishes, made them in three different cuisines, with three different chefs, based on the old method of oral tradition of anonymous popular cuisine.
A place where traditions are reinvented, with no particular inventor. Owners of the invisible but tangible as food causing pleasurable in all 5 senses responsables to create a memory of The Pop Kitchen.