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Belén Cerezo is an artist- researcher, Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao. Cerezo is based in Nottingham and Bilbao.
Her artistic research examines the functioning of images and attends to the transition from a representational model to a performative one that explores the new forms of action, relationship and practice generated by images. She makes moving-image installations, videos and photographs. Since 2017, her main line of enquiry stems from her encounter with the work of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.
Recent projects: How to become a post-human, Konrad Wolf University, online exhibition, 2022, Seeing Bodies, artist’s publication with commissioned texts and interview, 2020; Myths of the Near Future, TEA, Tenerife, 2019; installation ‘A Pool of Light’, Lincoln, UK, 2019, site-specific moving-image multi-channel installation ‘Living the Day’, which is the first iteration of this project, at Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain, 2018.
In 2015 she completed a practice-led PhD at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) where she was an associate lecturer in the Photography Department until 2021. Her PhD research ‘What is it “to move” a photograph? Artistic tactics for destabilising and transforming images’ enquired into how artistic practices, intervening in existing images, ‘move’ images in the sense of destabilising and transforming. The notion ‘to move’ led this investigation and it offered new insights on the operations of de-contextualisation and re-contextualisation, montage, the categories of the still and the moving image and the ‘affective encounter’ based on touching.
Belén has experience in publishing and presenting my research internationally. She is a member of Primary, Nottingham, and she is part of the collective ‘Film Free and Easy’ and ARE, trans-disciplinary international group of artists, writers, performers and researchers.
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