The architecture of memories

Lecture by Cecilia Traslaviña González organized by the Studio for Conceptual Art (Post-conceptual Art Practices) in collaboration with the Animation Lab.

From April to June 2019 Cecilia Traslaviña González is Artist in Residence at the Academy and will be affiliated with the Studio of Film and Art and with the Animation Lab.

Memories come to us, they arise from hidden layers of our life experience to guide our conscious self. I often confront my own memories in the experience of living in a city: an old wall brings forth what I though had been forgotten, inhabiting a house guides me back to past lives, the sight of an old factory carries the sense of a younger version of myself, or the tombstones in a cemetery speak of the living. My animation process is, in a sense, the act of peeling the layers of the visible city to reveal the memories they carry on me.

CV: Cecilia Traslaviña is a visual artist, animator and magister in literature. She works as professor and researcher in the Department of Visual Arts at the Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia.