Paola Estrella

This Saturday 29th of August at 1PM (Mexico time) Art Latinou organizes an online tour through the Viewing Room Alteridad by mexican artist Paola Estrella that was curated by afro-brazilian Juci Reis.

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The mystery calls to the human to project the existence, it opens the space so the rhythm acquires time, matter (body) and expression. Understanding that the reality as the central Ethos is metaphysically conditioned to time, we can understand that works recreated from the film documents: A Parallel Reality from Paola Estrella, resembles the otherness showed in a fantastic quotidian life through hybrid creatures that create a nonpolitical and non contextualized hierarchy that represent themselves in a mythological and untimely manner.  Estrella´s work proposes to re observe the film element to interpret it. The Witches, Shower, Portrait 1911, The Crazy Woman, Bunny, Flies on Holiday, Musicians, Beats, Ice Queen and Fish compose a personal mythology within a contemporary reality. Humans with the head of a bird, fish, dog, wasp, rabbit, owl, or sheep, perform rituals in everyday scenes. To take out the human head and substitute it for that of other animals opens a thought that goes beyond the mutuality reference to reflect the search of new identities and moral realities. An adverse narrative of idea transformation: openness to the understanding of new forms of existence, a direct revision of the contemporary ethos. These works come from the reorganization of visual scenes through a filmic language. The works that make part of the virtual exhibition constitute the union of several interdisciplinary elements: music, dressings, choreography, poetry, scenography, etc.  The union of different elements and artistic resources insinuate a discourse that is connected with the allegory of transformation; when representing animals looking for other means of perception of moral and political structures, it stimulates our own extrasensory potentials. The otherness as a reference point in the works of Estrella, constitutes a permanent reason that calls to a reinvention of the myth in the simultaneity. 

— Juci Reis, curator

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