Cristina Colmena

Synopsis of Research in Shanghai (February 15 - May 12)：

Colmena’s dissertation explores the relationship between image and fiction that emerges every time we look at photographs or archival footage. By approaching the photograph as a fragment or synecdoche of a world that we have to recreate in order to understand, the frame of the image becomes the border that marks the transition from the concrete to the fictionalized. In this way, the image becomes a kind of storytelling. Colmena’s research seeks to create contact with a language made of “images” - graphic symbols like ideograms that with different combinations can express very complex concepts and time.