Women Cinemakers meets
Victoria Karmín Lives and works in Mexico City
Experimental expression of the origin and evolution of life on Earth, which uses the scientific literature and a chaotic imagery as a metaphor of emotions and human reason.
An interview by Francis L. Quettier
background. You have a solid formal training
and Dora S. Tennant
and after your studies in physical sciences at
womencinemaker@berlin.com
the National Autonomous University of México
Reflecting a powerful combination between experimentation and references to scientific literature, EXTRATERRESTRE is a stimulating work by interdisciplinary artist Victoria Karmin. Triggering the viewers' perceptual categories, Karmin demonstrates the ability to capture elusive potential of moving images, inviting the viewers to unveil what goes beyond our ordinary perceptual experience: we are particularly pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating and multifaceted artistic production.
(UNAM), you nurtured your education with a
Hello Victoria and welcome to WomenCinemakers: we would start this interview with a couple of questions about your
revelation to comprehend that some drawings -
specialization in animation at “La Esmeralda” School of the National Institute of Art in México: how did these experiences influenced your your cultural substratum and address your decisions in your artistic research? Both my wonder of scientific thinking and visual arts have their origin in the same episode: when I was introduced to the simbol “+”. It had been a numbers- could represent objects, but the day I knew a drawing could represent an action -