| Beatriz
Santiago Muñoz was born in 1972. She is an artist living
and working in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She works primarily in video.
This year her work was screened at the Louvre Auditorium as part
of a film exhibit organized by Jean Cristophe Royoux and in PR04
[Tribute to the messenger], a biennial art event organized by M&M
Proyectos in San Juan. She recently completed the project A.
listens as part of a residency in Gasworks in London. She organizes an
itinerant alternative and experimental film and video series in
Puerto Rico, alternatively titled Proyector and 1/15 . She received
her MFA from the Schoool of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997.
This year she also completed Densa, Pequeña, a
video shot at the Arecibo Observatory, the largest radio telescope
in the world,
located in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Her films usually involve non-actors
performing one-step-removed versions of their lives, improvised
scripts and conversations. Densa, Pequeña is about
observation, about the landscape created by a 1000 foot wide radio
telescope, both beautiful
and frightening, and about the imaginary life of a lonely pulsar
astronomer.
Stills from Densa, PequeÃ’a (Dense, small) 2004
Still
from A. listens, 2004
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz was recommended to apexart's Fellowship Program
by Marysol Nieves, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte de
Puerto Rico |
