CRYO

CRYO

CRYO is a research project that focuses on amalgamating scientific-poetic-somatic-mythological narratives entangled in ice. The project aims to address the ‘cryosphere’ or ‘coldscape’ as a cryo-ecological setting in which ice, as a queering agent, melts the difference between natural and artificial, life and death, urban and rural as part of an intertwined continuum. The categories of liquid modernity (and its ultra-fast ways of making the world) no longer serve us in a world that is melting. Perhaps we can find other ways of thinking-feeling-acting in the present in the state of suspension or latency, in the liminal modes offered to us by ice of what is simultaneously ‘no longer and not yet’.

Ona Bros

Her work stems from situated processes, queer practices and ‘encrusted’ research. She politically addresses images as catalysts of semiotic-technical-material complexes. Her praxis forms part of a rich network of collaborations and collective resonances. She works with photography, video, text and live art.

She has a degree in Art History (UB), a Master in Artistic Production and Research (UB) and a degree in Photography from the Multimedia Image and Technology Centre (UPC).

She enjoyed a residency at Hangar and her work has been exhibited in various spaces, including La Panera, MACBA, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, La Casa Encendida and ACVic, among others. She has given lectures and workshops in the following contexts: Dutch Art Institute, DONE Visual Reflection and Creation Programme, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Seminar in Lima, Hangar and Hamaca.

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