WomenCinemakers, Special Edition

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interview

Women Cinemakers professional employment that had always interested me, alongside my practice as an artist. As well as learning how to care for traditional object-based collections, I undertook research as part of a minor thesis component that examined embodied and non-written documentation strategies for the transmission of a relational performance art practice. This work inspired different ways of thinking about what archives can be, about the transfer of living knowledge and what else can act as a repository outside the official cultural institutions (such as memory and place). While currently working as a practitioner in the conservation field, I also cannot help but be inspired by the collection material I have the privilege of encountering. You are an eclectic artist and your versatile practice embraces video, performance, photography and collage to pursue multilayered visual results: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production, we would invite to our readers to visit in order to get a synoptic idea about your artistic production: would you tell us what does address you to such captivating multidisciplinary approach? How do you select in order to explore a particular aspect of your artistic inquiry? My practice is largely lens-based, and it is through photography and video that I found a way to convey the charged emotional registers of the spaces at the outskirts of cities that I am so drawn to. As a time-based medium,


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