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In my work, I constantly reflect on Panamá's geographical position. A geographical position that has engendered consequences in nature, involving socio-political issues, creating dialogues between humans and nature. A geographical wound in the jungle and water, which is becoming an economic transit route. A wound that began on earth and passed to humans, in political situations and in our history with the United States. Paradoxically, within this wound, within this enclosed space of vulnerability, opportunities for new mixes and new forms of life have arisen. The lack of definition of my place of origin in words has influenced my artistic forms. How can you talk about a place in words when its stories and forms are made up of textures and sensations? By asking myself this question, I've broadened my forms of creation in my homeland. By feeling this place viscerally within me, sometimes images and representations aren't enough. That's why in my artistic practice, my body and its instinctive, repetitive, trance-like movements have demanded to be more and more present. With this in mind, I've come to realize that in my forms of work, I don't distinguish whether it's image or sound, whether it's the body or the space that tells the story, whether it's documentary or fiction. This mixture of hybrid aesthetics, like Panama, in which I seek out these states of vulnerability and mysticism in the face of the mixture of formats such as film, performance, sound, the body, with the intention of telling the story from sensations. My starting point is this place, which brings with it the visceral, the trance-like states associated with the land.
Country: Panama
T-Port Partner: Locarno Residency
Webpage: https://anaelenatejera.com/
Bio: Panamanian multidisciplinary artist in the fields of film and performance. She was artist in residence at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains and is currently in residence at the Cité des Arts in Paris. She was chosen as Berlin Talent 2023 for the Berlinale. She worked on the restoration of part of the Panamanian film archive at the Filmoteca de Catalunya and on the creation of the "Festival de la Memoria", a series of performative installations in urban spaces with political archive images and sound performance. She has also worked mixing audiovisual and performance formats, such as the piece "Bla Bla Bla": an audiovisual installation, accompanied by a performance created for the 30th anniversary of the invasion of Panama by the United States, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama. "Panquiaco", her first documentary film, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Her latest short film, "A Love Song in Spanish", participated in the official competition at the Berlinale and at the MoMA. Her first virtual reality film "Mosquito: A Wound Story" premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Her latest sound and visual installation "The Walls Know" was presented at the Ars Electronica 2022 Festival. She is preparing his next solo exhibition and performance with Solar Gallery and Batalha Centro de Cinema de Portugal (2023).
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