Ana Bravo Pérez

Ana Bravo Pérez is an artist and filmmaker born and raised in Pasto, Andean-Amazonian Piedmont in Abya Yala. Her work draws on migration, memory and violence. 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, serving as a way of healing colonialwounds. Bravo Pérez works with coal, cotton, gold, and plants like coca and toquilla to investigate colonial legacies and continued exploitation in the present-day. Her art projects propose decolonial and feminist ways of relating to Mother Earth and Earth beings.Ana’s work has been shown at the 15th Havana Biennial; 41st EVA International, Limerick; EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Thai Film Archive, Salaya; Casco Art Institute, Utrecht; TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Museum of Contemporary Art, Bahía Blanca; Cinematheque, Bogotá; Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul; and at film festivals such as IDFA, Hot Docs, Ji.hlava, Oberhausen, Havana, among others.Ana’s studies, publications and work in film and the visual arts, have taken her from the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, to Caracas, Venezuela; and from the International Film School in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, to the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She holds a Masters degree in Film from The Netherlands Film Academy.Ana is co-founder of the eco-village project I-tekoa in Tigre, Argentina and since 2017 she is an active member of Filmwerkplaats, the only artists run film lab in The Netherlands.