Ana Bravo Pérez

She uses her own migratory and diasporic experiences as a starting point for her artistic projects investigating suppressed narratives and collective histories. Her experiences have been crucial for building an artistic practice in which personal, decolonial and geopolitical questions merge. An important theme in her work is how to deal with violence visually without representing it, so it can heal colonial wounds instead.

Investigating colonial legacies and the present-day continued exploitation, Bravo Pérez is working with materials such as coal, celluloid and gold. Bravo Pérez’s work is shown at Cinematheque, Bogotá; EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Museum Willet-Holthuysen, Amsterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art, Bahía Blanca, Argentina and at film festivals such as Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival; IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam; Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival; Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; among others.