Celeste Rojas Mugica

BIOGRAPHIE

Celeste Rojas Mugica (b.1987, Chile) is a visual artist, photographer and filmmaker. She is currently studying the Master in Film Creation of the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (Basque Country). She investigates the relation between memories, violence and imaginaries about the territory, working with images and archives as materials and media of experimentation around its social uses and its political power, setting her practice in relation to the borders between fiction and document. She has exhibited and published her work in Latin America, Europe and Asia. During her career she has been supported by the Hubert Bals Fund - IFFR (Netherlands); FONDART (Chile); Audiovisual Fund (Chile); BECAR Cultura of the Ministry of Culture of Argentina; the National Fund of Arts of Argentina, the Deutsch Art Council (Italy), among others. Her work has been recognized with the "Rodrigo Rojas de Negri" National Young Photography Prize (Chile, 2017), the Buenos Aires Young Art Biennial Prize (Argentina, 2017) and the Latin American Creation Prize of the Biennial of Image in Movement (Argentina, 2018), among others. She has recently exhibited her work in exhibitions and festivals such as BIENALSUR (Argentina; Chile), Ars Electronica (Austria), Les Rencontres d’ Arles (Francia), Image & Movement Biennial (Argentina), San Sebastian Film Festival (Spain) and UNSEEN Festival (Netherlands), among others. She lives and works between San Sebastián-Spain, Santiago and Buenos Aires She is represented by Rolf Art Gallery

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