Ana Vaz
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Ana Vaz is an artist and filmmaker whose works speculate on the relationships between self and other, and myth and history, through a cosmology of signs, references, and perspectives. Taking up the history and territory of her native Brazil, her films consist of assemblages of found and shot materials, and combine ethnography and speculation to unpack the frictions and fictions imprinted upon both natural and built environments and their inhabitants. Through a profusion of intricate and potent portraits of land, animals, and people, Vaz’s work evinces the interdependent relationships between colonialism, modernism, and the Anthropocene. Her artistic approach denounces the human consumption and destruction of the natural environment and native communities. Focusing on the stories and struggles of rural laborers, Vaz’s work offers narratives that have been absent, or erased, from history.
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Ana Vaz is an artist and filmmaker whose works speculate on the relationships between self and other, and myth and history, through a cosmology of signs, references, and perspectives. Taking up the history and territory of her native Brazil, her films consist of assemblages of found and shot materials, and combine ethnography and speculation to unpack the frictions and fictions imprinted upon both natural and built environments and their inhabitants. Through a profusion of intricate and potent portraits of land, animals, and people, Vaz’s work evinces the interdependent relationships between colonialism, modernism, and the Anthropocene. Her artistic approach denounces the human consumption and destruction of the natural environment and native communities. Focusing on the stories and struggles of rural laborers, Vaz’s work offers narratives that have been absent, or erased, from history.