CAROLINA GONZALEZ VALENCIA

Dates of residency: May till June 2018
Born: 1985
Nationality: Colombian
Lives and works: Maine, USA
Education: 
2016 MFA Studio Art-Department of film,The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
2009 BFA Studio Art, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Selected shows: 
2019 In Search of the Best Cyclist in The World, La Lumiere, Montreal
2019 In Search of the Best Cyclist in The World, Films from the South-Fixinart, Thessaloniki  
2018 Objects to Get Deported, CMCA Biennial, Rockland
2018 In Search of the Best Cyclist in The World, Vox Populi, Philadelphia

THE ARTIST
Carolina González Valencia's (b. 1985 in Bogotá, Colombia – lives and works in Lewiston, Maine, US) films and videos exist at the intersection of the personal, social, and political. In her work, she weaves animations, performance, re-enactments, drawings, and readymades, to create new documents that challenge social and historical representations of migration, otherness, and labor. She received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the department of Art and Visual Culture at Bates College.

THE RESIDENCY
Consisting of video work, sound piece and sculpture, Carolina's multimedia installation Then you find yourself in the middle of dust aims to define the intangible moments throughout a building's state of demolishment. Soon after she started to document the process of the building getting demolished, neighbors and pedestrians started to give me fragments of stories of what the building was and what space is going to become. At Open Studios, she presented a series of gestures, an attempt to contain, slow down, and organize this fragile moment of transformation. "How do I contain what is banishing, what expands and soon disappears? The impossibility to get a hold of them was my task".