Patricia Orellana
El Salvador, 1991
Graduated from the Universidad de El Salvador with a bachelors degree in Visual Arts. Her field of study and investigation is that of bodily phenomena, from sports to art; she considers that the arts should focus on a multidisciplinary approach. Some of her preferred axes of action are movement arts and body/performance art, multimedia editing, music and painting.
She has participated in different workshops related to body sensitization, aerodance, training methods for bodily expressions or composition in space, contemporary art, the importance of physical education in early childhood and adulthood, drawing, painting, music, among others.
RESIDENCY INVESTIGATION PROCESS
Patricia Orellana Solares explores movements associated with circularity, generating bodily shapes from memory and recollection. Her video piece, Ciclos, is the result of multiple sensory layers that go from the palate to other parts of the body. Her investigation detonates rotary and linear displacements linked to the mechanisms and processes through which coffee passes: from the earth onto its more mechanical and industrial purification processes.
– Adán Vallecillo, Tutor –
I focus on the body and movement as media in multidisciplinary research, where I also use video and photography as a way to register it. In my proposal, I took up most of the elements of the Specialty Coffee Cycle in order to translate them into a sequence of movements and overlapping images.
An important lesson is that, although we live in a coffee-growing region, the ways in which coffee processes are articulated are unknown. We know little to nothing about this plant. Coffee can awaken many sensations in our tasting senses. We forget that quality and traceability are not always related to vanity, but to the right of knowing what is entering my body and how that product was treated before putting it on my table.
Cycles
video art
2020