Pilar Mata Dupont
I am a Latinx visual artist and filmmaker living and working between Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Boorloo (Perth), Australia. My work spans video, performance, and photography and delves into the fallibility of structures of history, gender, and memory. Using highly theatrical and cinematic methods, I re-imagine histories and texts, creating alternative readings that question the conditions of the construction of dominant narratives that shape Western society. My Argentinean background and upbringing in Australia, Argentina, and Brunei Darussalam – all settler states or former colonies – feed into my practice through the themes I explore.
I have shown my work in spaces and festivals such as Secession, Vienna; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei; Mediacity Seoul at the Seoul Museum of Art; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; TENT, Rotterdam; New Zealand Festival through Te Papa; MONA FOMA; Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg, Berlin; PICA, Perth; Biennale of Sydney 2010; The Box at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA; and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris. In 2015, I won the Plymouth Contemporary Open, UK, and a residency prize at the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2010, with Tarryn Gill, I won the Basil Sellers Art Prize. My new film, ‘La Maruja’, will premiere in 2021 with experimental online platform, Prototype.
Soy artista visual y cinematógrafa latinx, trabajo y vivo entre Rotterdam, Holanda y Boorloo (Perth) Australia. Mi trabajo abarca el video, la performance y la fotografía, ahondando en la falibilidad de la estructura de las historias, el género y la memoria. Usando métodos teatrales y cinematográficos re-imagino historias y textos, creando lecturas alternativas que cuestionan las condiciones de construcción de las narrativas dominantes que conforman la historia occidental. Mi antecedente argentino y mi educación en Australia, Argentina, and Brunei Darussalam - estados coloniales o antiguas colonias - alimentan mi práctica a través de los temas que exploro.
Mostré mi trabajo en espacios y festivales como Secession, Vienna; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei; Mediacity Seoul en el Seoul Museum of Art; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; TENT, Rotterdam; New Zealand Festival a través de Te Papa; MONA FOMA; Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg, Berlin; PICA, Perth; Biennale of Sydney 2010; The Box en el Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA; y Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris. En el 2015, gané el Plymouth Contemporary Open, UK, y un premio como residencia de arte en la 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc Videobrasil en São Paulo, Brasil. En el 2010, con Tarryn Gill, gané el Basil Sellers Art Prize. Mi nueva película, ‘La Maruja’, se estrenará en el 2021 con la plataforma online experimental, Prototype.
Pilar Mata Dupont is represented by MOORE CONTEMPORARY in Australia/Pilar Mata Dupont está representada por MOORE CONTEMPORARY en Australia