Ana Sofia
Panamá, 1995
Conceptual artist and performer based in Panama City, Panama. Her work is intimately linked to her experiences as a racialized woman that lives in the territory known as Latin America. In her installations, performances and objects, she recreates domestic situations/actions/objects outside of their habitual context and functionality. Some of the themes that her work reflects on are those of the female gender roles in the domestic habitat, and more recently, techno-intimacy.
Her work has been shown in multiple collective exhibitions in the United States, among which her participation in the Inverse Performance Art Festival 2018 is highlighted, where she also participated as an resident artist in 2020. In Panama, she exhibited with the Arte Nómada collective in their third edition, and in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama’s annual auction in 2019. “I Settled Down” was one of her latest shows, where she debuted her bachelor’s degree thesis in the apartment that she rented alongside two other people.
RESIDENCY INVESTIGATION PROCESS
From the beginning of the residency, this artist set out to go after several of the myths surrounding coffee production, and so she was always receptive to phrases that appeared during conversations in our virtual sessions. Once chosen, she set out to print them with laser on the surfaces of recycled paper made of plants coming from of the coffee crop’s ecosystem. Finally, she installed the texts in the jungle, where she keeps documenting their natural process of deterioration.
– Adán Vallecillo, tutor –
I identify myself as an anti-speciesist, and as such, “animals” are non-human people and the forest is a conscious organism. For my installation with CCD, I wanted the jungle and its inhabitants to be my audience; to tell them tales and myths about this plant native to another jungle and then let it be consumed by this one.
Coffee Myths
Installation and registration
2020
