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Psicogeografía Asimétrica

Psicogeografia Asimétrica -born from the cartographic experience of the city where I was born and raised- it is materialized in an installation where a 3-channel video dialogues with a sculpture series and together form an emotional landscape. Lima, is that place that I recognize but that also appears to me as something unknown.

An abyss. A city made of fragments that is difficult to think about and that I show as that blurred horizon of the sea and the desert. In its constructions we can see the unfulfilled promise, the failed national project, the ruin as a testimony of time passing by and a future that never arrives. The short-circuit of a city so difficult to think about is like the mirage of the horizon in the desert: are they houses? people? buildings? animals? This impossibility of representation is the impossibility of a city of sand that does not allow itself to be looked at but that invites me to imagine its possibilities and its future that is about to come.

3-channel-video, color, sound, 18'

  • Josefina Leon
    Director
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Psicogeografía Asimétrica
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 20, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Peru
  • Country of Filming:
    Peru
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1800x1920
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Josefina Leon

I was born in Lima, Peru in 1995. I currently live and work in Basel, Switzerland.

I received both my BA and MA in Fine Arts at the IAGN FHNW in Basel (CH), with the support of an educational scholarship I won in 2019.

My work has been part of solo and group exhibitions, most recently at Kunsthaus Baselland(CH), SVĚTOVA 1(CZ), and Ausstellungsraum Klingental(CH). My videos have participated in initiatives such as the international digital platform Corona Kino and I have presented publications at the I NEVER READ art book fair in Basel. I have screened my videos in the Cultural Fair ANTIFIL in Lima and in the Al Este Festival de Lima competition in which I won a Special Mention.

In my practice, I research the relationship between space and architecture and their affective and ideological links. I am also interested in imagining fictitious, alternative, and sometimes utopian places and constructions. All this as part of a process that is accompanied by writing, drawing, and filming habits and that can materialize in different ways in sculpture and installation.

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