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Ana Mosquera

Philadelphia

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Biography

Mosquera´s work lives at the interface of the digital and physical worlds, drawing inspiration from architecture, urbanism, cyberspace memories, and language. She relies on the unexpected to collect and appropriate digital materials, which she then meticulously compiles using self-developed processes. This practice is informed by her experience of dislocation as the result of migration, and her reliance on technology to access emotional proximity, memories, and resources. For her textile series, Mosquera explores ways to translate scrapped data from open Venezuelan Facebook groups into tactile surfaces, in an attempt to give physical form to digital materials. In her video works, she combines rhythmic poetry with the movement and distribution of images, to create complex and absurd narrative games that alter the perceptions of belonging, and expose the works of a decentralized network of interactions. The fascination with utopias and dystopias is also present in Mosquera´s case by works like Station D /Station C: Deception Island where a failed political system and its bureaucratic nightmare unravels over a digital micronation to put forward the idea of how territories exist as non-objective realities – opening the door to an expanded notion of place, and the forces that wild them and the way we codify that experience symbolically, materially, and digitally. Her most recent exhibitions are : Familiar Distances - Edge Zones, Miami (2021); Serendipia / Instalar - Espacio Monitor, Los Galpones Caracas (2021). ¿Por qué Islas? Solo Licencia de Reconocimiento, Tenerife (2021). Premio Eugenio Mendoza, Sala Mendoza, Caracas (2021). Testing Grounds - Cherry Street Pier, Philadelphia (2020) Crónicas Migrantes. Historias comunes entre Perú y Venezuela - Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima (2019) Forward: Consciousness of Migration exhibition - Maputo Fast Forward. Mozambique (2019).

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Diálogo 365: New Rhizomes
Aug 12th 2022 - Sep 9th 2022
Fleisher Art Memorial
Art Project
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This is my home
National Liberty Museum
 
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ILab Resident Fall 2022
Beginning in summer 2022, University of the Arts will welcome 10 artists-in-residence from within the university community and around the world, as they accelerate and cultivate contributions to contemporary knowledge production. This new Inspiration Lab Artist-in-Residence program, made possible by generous donor support, offers unprecedented residency opportunities at a thriving arts institution...
 
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Tierras Raras
Jul 23rd 2022 - Sep 10th 2022
Sala Mendoza