Laura Sofía Pérez
Laura Sofía Pérez is an interdisciplinary artist who works in video, film, sound, and installation. She received her MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts. Her work draws from feminist and avant-garde cinema, phenomenological philosophy, Caribbean Postcolonial theory, and ancestral knowledge. She often works in collaborative settings of experimentation and improvisation with artists of varying disciplines and backgrounds to voice common perspectives on political, cultural, and social issues. Recent film festival selections include Doc Fortnight 2024: MoMa’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media and Third Horizon Film Festival 2024. Recent artist residencies include The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2023), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada (2020), the AfA Masterclass: Radical Care with Terike Haapoja (2020), and La Práctica at Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2019). She is Visiting Faculty in Film/Video at Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
La Carpa (Work in Progress). 3-channel video, 16mm film, sound. Image courtesy of the artist.
La Carpa (Work in Progress). 3-channel video, 16mm film, sound. Image courtesy of the artist.
La Carpa (Work in Progress). 3-channel mock-up, 3-channel video, 16mm film, sound. Image courtesy of the artist.
How to love a place so the children will love their land, 2023. Video, 16mm film, sound. Image courtesy of the artist.
How to love a place so the children will love their land, 2023. Video, 16mm film, sound. Image courtesy of the artist.
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