Palimpsest A series of three videos, tracing alchemy through its transformative journey. NIGREDO. An act of identity that is sustained and built within the limits of one’s own desire. ALBEDO. A dream that glimmers across every surface I touch, in a futile attempt to reach you. CITRINITAS AND RUBEDO. Virtual reality has become a cage. […]
SARAH SARAH is a video performance that explores unauthorized grief, also called silent or forbidden grief: the kind that we ourselves, our surroundings, or society force us not to express as we would need to. The work presents a frozen heart, a symbol of the human capacity to repress emotions in order to make decisions
OPEN HEART OPEN HEART is a powerful visual meditation on the resilience of the human heart. Using a real pig’s heart to represent its human counterpart, the video captures the artist’s hands as they open, tear apart, and rearrange the heart, leaving it both shattered and exposed. This visceral act symbolizes the impact of life’s
COVID 19 ME TOO VIDEO PERFORMANCE BY FINA FERRARA COVID 19 ME TOO is a series of five video pieces that explore different emotional phases experienced during the first months of the pandemic. Through the works titled Confinement, Fear, Panic, Insomnia, and Transmutation, the series traces an emotional journey shared by many — from physical
RESONANCE VIDEO PERFORMANCE BY FINA FERRARA These are the spaces where fragments once sticked together. The resilience to observe — and even discard — makes us a little perverse, perhaps. Transformation happens again and again;there is no longer space for what once was. Video art selected by Agite y Sirva – Itinerant Videodance Festival 2019–2020,
THE EVOLUTION OF BEING VIDEO PERFORMANCE BY FINA FERRARA Gender-based violence is a reality that affects us all. In Mexico alone, 46 out of every 100 women are victims of violence.What internal struggle does a woman face when trapped in an abusive relationship? This work plunges us into the obsessive, repetitive, and self-destructive behaviors that
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TRANSDUCTION VIDEO PERFORMANCE BY FINA FERRARA Folding inward defending from harm, our sensory receptors and nervous system tauten to the minimum stimuli. TRANSDUCTION is a piece that reflects the fear and stiffness experienced during the first stages of quarantine. Video selected for the Video Performance Cycle PerfoRed MX, 2020. https://youtu.be/acX9ZJnzrZE
RODACACA VIDEO PERFORMANCE BY FINA FERRARA RODACACA draws a parallel between the behavior of the dung beetle and the way humans deal with the waste we produce. As an environmental critique, the piece exposes how we accumulate garbage without questioning the consequences, turning our immediate surroundings —our home, the planet— into a container of our
NA’ATIK Na’atik is an invitation to deeply understand the interconnection between humanity, nature, and that invisible force that manifests, protests, and persists. The body, fragile yet resilient, becomes an echo of the landscape; a reflection of wounded land. It is the living thread between earth, water, jungle, bewilderment, uprootedness, and devastation. Na’atik is listening with
SOTERRADO VideoPerformance by Fina Ferrara, 2022 — single take. Pain that surfaces covertly through laughter. https://youtu.be/h56W2Q44EWQ
