Exhibitions Claudia Claremi
September 6 - October 4, 2023 Project Space Studio
La memoria de las frutas (diáspora). © Claudia Claremi. Courtesy of the artist.Project Space Residency
Open Studio: September 21, 6pm
Claudia Claremi uses film to explore collective experiences, memories, and shared imaginaries. Her work is focused on activating the unconscious mind and revealing the structures of Western modernity. By creating experiential spaces and utilizing participatory processes, films become powerful tools for addressing issues such as embodiment, memory, diaspora, and coloniality. Her films create physical and sensory experiences for the viewer, and her approach to moving images is multidisciplinary, including video, analogue film, installation, photography, archive, or text.
By exploring sensorial and experimental languages and combining video, analogue film, installation, photography, archive and text, my projects address issues such as embodiment, memory, diaspora, and coloniality. I am interested in generating experiential spaces and participatory processes which activate the unconscious, as devices in which the structures of Western modernity become evident. Through multiple approaches to moving images, my work delves into the subjective level of collective experiences, exploring popular imaginaries, shared memories and non- rational forms of knowledge. Operating between the collective and the personal, very often, projects begin approaching a specific context where I activate a conversation with those who later become participants.
Claudia Claremi. (Madrid, 1986)
Spanish-Cuban visual artist and filmmaker. Graduated in Documentary Film from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) and in Fine Arts from University of the Arts London (UK) and the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana (Cuba), she has also obtained art awards and grants such as XXI Generación 2021, XXXI Circuitos, Matadero CREA and NOEXPO (Reina Sofía Museum). Her work has been exhibited in galleries as well as shown at film festivals such as Ann Arbor, Raindance, Ji.hlava, FIC Guadalajara, Oberhausen or the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.
VSW Project Space Residencies are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature, Monroe County, and Joy of Giving Something.
One of Claudia's ambitious projects while in residency was to make flip books from her 16mm film. Here she is leading a workshop demonstration.
Claudia made a flipbook from the footage of her film La Memoria de las Frutas, a poignant human depiction of diaspora experience.
Claudia made a new 16mm film while in residency, documenting residents of a local community garden planting a banana tree.
Claudia set up an installation for her open studio event, displaying transparency stills from her film La Memoria de las Frutas in the window pane of the Project Space.
Text and image installation for Claudia Claremi's open studio event.