Lorena Almario Rojas

Film

What hurt me most in the nightmare was the impact. What hurts me most about the impact is the mark. The mark was cities, yes. The mark was mines, yes. The mark was my body.

A series of performative readings facing the camera becomes an interplay between the filmed body and the camera/sound body, which together co-create an exploration of narratives linking the binary gender system to intensive extraction in a non-existent territory, somewhere between the mining museums of northern France and the mining projects of central Chile.

Lorena Almario Rojas

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Using performance, film and sound, Lorena Almario Rojas explores processes of forgetting, de-indigenisation and cultural mixing in Latin America. She believes in poetry and opacity as a shared language for those translating from an expropriated tongue. She obtained her Master’s degree from the École nationale supérieure des arts de Paris-Cergy in 2025. Since then, her films and performances have been shown at venues including the Centre Pompidou (Festival EXTRA!, Paris, France), Fidocs (Santiago, Chile), FICCALI (Cali, Colombia), MIDBO (Bogotá, Colombia) and the Centre d’art Ygrec (Cergy, France). Since 2025, she has co-directed FRONTERIZA, a cultural venue, community space and artist and non-artist residency in Cali, Colombia. She is part of the Zara Hadid cohort at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains.

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