Ivana Larrosa, one of the headliner Spanish filmmakers on our marqueé for this auspicious 100-year anniversary of La Nacional’s move to its permanent home, is also an internationally acclaimed visual artist and arts writer who works primarily with photography, video installations and performance. She shares this dimension of her work with us in a pop-up exhibit at La Nacional’s gallery from “The Engram Series” as part of this 4th edition of A Night at La Nacional.
“I work with my family photographs from the late 19th and 20th centuries. I distort, combine and alter these photographs in order to ignite and re-animate them. Most of these historical photographs are of my female ancestors. Through my practice, I impress my own destiny on to visual story of my family and bring that history into my nomadic present.”
TITLE OF SERIES: ENGRAMS
MEDIA: Gliclée reproduction. Encapsulated mineral pigments on fine art paper Hahnemüle Photo Rag 308 gsm. [Estimated minimum durability of more than 150 years in optimum storage conditions].
SIZE: Variable Dimensions
EDITION: Unique
YEAR: 2015-23 (ONGOING)
The Generation of ’27 meets The harlem renaissance
An experimental soundscape performance which, through live and electronic music, marries works by poets from the Generation of ’27 in Spain — the poets of the Spanish Civil War — and from the Harlem Renaissance.
Award-Winning, Multiple-Genres Flutist, Composer, Educator, Fulbright Scholar. Born Yael Acher in Tel Aviv, a former resident of Copenhagen who now calls New York home, Yael is a citizen of the world with an oeuvre of astounding range and diversity. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Classical Flute Performing Arts and a Master’s degree in Music for Social Change. She plays therapeutic concerts at hospices, shelters, juvenile detention centers and benefit concerts. Her oeuvre spans Urban Electro-acoustic Jazz, Contemporary, Classical, Tango, Free Improvisation, Electronic-Acoustic live soundtracks for silent films, and Music for Choreography in a variety of media. She has toured all over Europe, Israel, Japan, USA, Canada and beyond.
We are honored to welcome her to our programme this month and to share her wide-ranging talent with our audiences.