ARCHIVO RESEARCH NETWORK | Visiting Researcher 2023
BIANCA SALVO
Visual artistUniversidad de Los Andes, Bogotá
↘ BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Bianca Salvo (*1986) is a visual artist living and working in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2020, she graduated cum laude from the MA in Plastic Arts of the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, and in 2012 she received her MA in Photography from the London College of Communication. She is currently lecturer in photography at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá. Her work has been shown in Italy and abroad in several collective and solo exhibitions: Festival Circulation(s), Paris, 2021, The Universe Makers, Scotiabank CONTACT Photofestival, Toronto 2019, Fonderia 20.9, Verona, Atelier NOUA, Norway, 2018, MOONSTRUCK. Photographic explorations, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, 2019, Mopla Group Show, Los Angeles, 2018. In 2018, she was the recipient of the scholarship Chromaluxe for Lucie Foundation and her photo- book “Time and Again” was shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Award 2018 and Unseen Dummy Award 2017. Her projects have been published in several on-line magazines such as: Lensculture (2018), GUP Magazine (2018), YET Magazine (2017), Archive Collective Magazine (2017).
Research Interests
Oscillating between the factual and the fictional, her work mainly explores the connections among beliefs and the image. Her research points to question the role of Western gaze in the production of evidence and proofs of idealistic scenarios of civilization. She is interested in the investigation of digital archives and virtual collections, as well as, in the deconstruction and the re-enactment of found narratives. Her artistic practice bases on the combined use of staged photography with archival footage, written documents, books, found objects, installation and moving image. Overlaying territories, times, and histories her body of work aims to produce a new stock of material evidence resistant to classification, besides, through her projects and research, she intends to challenge the effectiveness of human temporal registers offering plausible scenarios amid truth and imagination.
