Belén Cerezo
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Belén Cerezo is an artist based in Nottingham and Bilbao who works across immersive site-specific installations, videos, photographs, and writings. Her work is about thinking-making with images, with the body, and the camera. For her, embracing experimentation with cameras and the various production and reproduction devices is fundamental; and the body is at the core of these explorations. Her practice generates a certain ecology of the image; she has a marked interest in looking at the world once again with astonishment attempting to repairing our damaged bonds with the world.
Since 2017, Belén’s main line of enquiry translates to the visual arts some of the core components of the unclassifiable and fascinating work of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector and how it has resonated for her. She is interested in Lispector’s affirmation of life and her questioning of binary thinking, and crucially, how she writes with the body. This enquiry-as-exploration stages a transdisciplinary encounter between reading, filming and installation practices. It has materialised in the immersive moving-image site-specific installation Viviendo el día (Living the Day) (2018) and the multilayered performative installation A Pool of Light (2019), and it has been gathered in the publication Seeing Bodies (2020).
Selection of recent projects: Seeing Bodies, publication (2020); residency-exhibition, OPEN 3, The Collection, Lincoln (2019); residency, Virtual Technologies Research Lab, NTU (2019); Myths of the Near Future, group show, TEA, Tenerife (2019); Un triángulo, tres vértices_Ser rizoma, group show, Eskualdea, Álava (2019); residency in BÓLIDE 1050, Natal, Brazil (2018); Viviendo el día-Living the Day, solo show, Cultural Centre Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2018); residency at Foundation Bilbaoarte (2016); and Rehearsing Memory, Belton 2015, commission for Belton House, The National Trust, (2015) in collaboration with Rebecca Lee.
Cerezo is Associate Lecturer in Photography, Nottingham Trent University where she completed her practice-led PhD research “What is it ‘to move’ a photograph? Artistic tactics for destabilising and transforming images” in 2015. She is part of the collective Film Free and Easy, Nottingham.