Violeta mora
Honduras y Costa Rica, 1990
Her work has been developed in its majority in the audiovisual area, specifically in documentary and experimental film. More recently, her work also explores the possibilities of embroidery and photography as a means of creation. Thematically and methodologically, her work focuses on the exploration of memory, remembrance and rites as an everyday element through the registry and documentation of processes, in order to then recuperate and reinterpret experiences.
Her work has been exhibited in different art spaces and fairs in Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba, Spain, England and the Netherlands. She is currently a Documentary Direction student at the EICTV, in Cuba.
RESIDENCY RESEARCH PROCESS
In Violeta’s case, she began her research from images that record the harvest of coffee cherries on video, where qualities of the harvesting process were highlighted, such as patience, hope, accumulation, and dispersal. From these sequences, she gradually eliminated leaves, fruits, and the landscape, leaving behind only the movement of the arms and hands of female coffee pickers exposed. Parallel to her editing work, Violeta experimented with embroidery on fabrics dyed with coffee, resulting in collages that function as installations, videos, and animations, where she plays with traces or appearances of calligraphy that reaffirms the critical and poetic character of said works.
– Adán Vallecillo, tutor –
The first approach to the concept of the harvest.
What is it? What is it implying? How does it feel? How does it look?
I write down the first ideas, then look for images that allow me to visualize it and understand it from the senses, to then register the words. It implies patience, hope, accumulation; it is an act of magnetism that allows us to bring together what is dispersed. Repetition allows transformation. It is similar to memory in that way.
- Semana 1
- Semana 2
- Semana 3
- Semana 4
- Semana 6
Who are the invisible ones? What lies between each movement?
These were some of the questions that arose during the investigative process, which have remained with me until the end. In each movement, although repeated, there is transformation.
Each movement is now an echo, in which we can see the traces of what was and also imagine what will be.
Traces
Installation and video – Dimensions variable
2020