Paula Quintana

Taking as my starting point performing arts creation, what interests me is hybridising styles and techniques to multiply layers of language and meanings, creating a link with the audience at different levels, intellectual and visceral, with a firm commitment to the context in which we are living and the search for genuine forms and approaches, to serve each particular project. In much the same way, I implement the material in different exhibition formats and shared practices. Amongst other things, I have been an artist for La Caixa’s Art for Change programme (2020), received the “Fonds de dotation Porosus–cité international des arts” grant to participate in CAMPING 19 (CND, Paris), and won First Prize in the 3rd European Contemporary Creative Woman Competition (2016) and the Special Emerging Artist Prize at the Umore Azoka Fair (2015), and have been a resident at the Centro Danza Canal.

https://paulaquintana.com/

 

Residency project

The performance Hebra dialogues with the artistic intervention “Suspendre el Cel” by Brazilian artist Caio Reisewitz. Hebra is a solo performance set in a pavilion filled with tropical plants, transcending the limits of dance by connecting the performer’s body with the vegetal and architectural bodies. Hebra consists of three scenes, each lasting 15 minutes, located in three different spaces of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion: the outdoor pond, the interior of the pavilion filled with tropical plants, and the pavilion’s roof. The three scenes create a type of bond with the space. A literal bond, woven through the hair braids that extend and branch out from Paula Quintana to the architectural and vegetal bodies, and inversely, from these bodies to the dancer.

Residency archive Graner

  • 2024 · in dialogue with Fundació Mies van der Rohe · Hebra
  • 2022 · open call · Huerto

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