Audiovisual collaboraive project between Dania and Valentina Alvarado Matos rooted in the concept of a foreign body, an extraneous object from outside the human body that must be removed, lest it result in serious sequelae or become maladaptively incorporated. The work finds Dania examining identity through the lens of conflict-induced forced migration, exploring her own experience as a migrant and the persistent sense of being a foreign object within the pathological body politic.
Valentina Alvarado MatosValentina Alvarado Matos is an artist whose practice focuses on collage, from which she conceives the image through a gaze that revolves around landscape, gesture and matter. Her work has been exhibited at Los Angeles Film Forum, Conde Duque, Salzburger Kunstverein, Fabra i Coats, Arts Santa Mònica, Viennale, IFFR, Punto de Vista, XCentric, SFCinemateque, S8, LOOP, Cinemateca Madrid, Filmoteca de Cataluña, among others. She has been a resident at La Escocesa, Cultura Resident, The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto and Matadero Madrid. Her films are part of the Light Cone distribution catalogue
