Tonight starting at 7:30pm you can watch a solo screening of works by Boston-based artist Magda Fernanadez. microscopegallery.com/magda-fernandez-through-immigrant-ey <http://microscopegallery.com/magda-fernandez-through-immigrant-eyes/?fbclid=IwAR1qPk-TInMiSX9AUzUQJEwZzf8Gs6nyZgsHupKnT3s5GNW7pjdqI4T3mNo> es/
The program includes a selection of 13 short videos made by Fernandez between 2006 and 2020 offering a comprehensive look into her videography. In these works, often conceptual and resting on her reflections on her own identity as a Cuban-American, the artist performs in various disguises and roles against moving-image backdrops of original or found footage. The screening is preceded by a pre-recorded intro by Microscope's co-directors and a Q&A with the artist will follow at 8:45pm via live chat. The program will remain available for viewing until Thursday 7:30pmPT. More info & full program here are also at link above! *Magda Fernandez* is a Cuban-born, Boston-based artist who has been making experimental videos since 2006. Fernandez creates silent, mostly diaristic videos that question power and oppression, reality and fantasy, and memory and history. Fernandez’s videos received the Los Angeles Experimental Forum’s Best Experimental Short Award and Audience Award (2018), Venezuela’s 5 Continents International Film Festival’s Best Video Art Award (June 2018), the International New York Film Festival’s Silver Experimental Award (2018), the London Independent Film Awards’ Best Experimental (October 2017), and additional Honorable Mentions in the LA Underground Film Forum (2018) and the Experimental Forum (2018). Fernandez’s videos also were a Semi-Finalist in FilmArte Madrid (2019), and Official Selections in the London Experimental Film Festival (2020), Chile’s Santiago Independent Film Awards (August 2019), the Dumbo Film Festival (March 2019), the Queens World Film Festival (2019), the South Film and Arts Academy Festival in Chile (2018), and the Sydney World Film Festival (2017). Her videos have been exhibited at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, in “Nine Moments for Now” at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at Harvard University, in “STAND UP” at Kayafas Gallery, in “latinx@americanaza” at Samson Gallery, and in “La Cubana y El Cubano” at the Copley Society. In 2010, Fernandez was invited to present her videos-in-progress at Ute Meta Bauer and Joan Jonas’ Art, Culture, and Technology Lectures Series: “The Theatrical/The Performative/The Transformative” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For her past artwork, Fernandez has received grants from the Council for the Arts at MIT, and was a finalist for both the Cintas Foundation Fellowship and Creative Capital Visual Arts Grant.
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