Casatierra, 2015
Tuning
I explore unusual view trying to find tuning or harmony with living creatures other than myself.
OLEOAGUA (2015), CRISOLES, (2019), and TINERHIR (2022), are developments of my tuning explorations, but I started looking for creature's viewpoint when I was a girl and used to go fishing with my father in the Caño Nare, an affluent to the Meta river. At that time, I imagined being the small fish that enters a trap-glass-bottle but remembers the way out, so it never gets cut to be food for bigger fish.
This videoclip is the registry of the first time that I had the certainty of being in the consciousness of a fish, as you could probably ascertain if you have the patience to watch the entire clip (1'48").
Being in someone else's feet
With my work I refer to critical aspects of human use of the resources we share with other species on the planet.
I work on problems related to perception and scale, and also refer to the tension and the unfairness that I encounter in the relationships between humans and all other species.
Traveler
If I were a bird, I would be a hummingbird, a restless one, traveling from flower to flower. I could not have been a woodpecker who repeatedly hits the same stick, as I could not attach myself to a lawyer's desk.
I integrated traveling into my practice as a working method; to me traveling consists in a physical displacement to different places for periods of time, but it is also the inner mobilization of consciousness that happens during exploratory work in my studio without the need for physical displacement. Furthermore, an expanded notion of traveling includes technological displacements through Google Earth and other tools.
A way to problem solving
I like exploring and making things with my hands and with technological devices. I am convinced that a sensorial approach to today's problems is positive and necessary
Slow
"No need to hurry, no need to sparkle, no need to be anyone but oneself". This quote appears in almost all my notebooks. Thank you V. Wolf and Celeste G.
BIO
Colombian and Swiss artist based in Bogotá, earned her master’s degree in Visual, Electronic and Time Arts at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and her master’s in law at the University of Virginia in the USA. Using drawing and various technological media, Blanca builds immersive installations that explore unusual -not necessarily human- points of view to address critical aspects of human's consumption of the resources that all alive creatures share on Earth; she also does smaller works hinting at the larger theme. Blanca is an AIRIE Fellow at AIRIE.org (Everglades Natl. Park, 2018) and she was also an artist in residence at LABVERDE (Manaus, 2016). Since 2016 Blanca collaborates pro-bono as a BOD member of www.amazonaid.org, NGO dedicated to educating and activate global awareness to preserve the Amazon from illegal gold mining through music, film, and multimedia.