Carolina Loyola-Garcia
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Still from FRAGILE, video/sound installation, 2006
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Carolina Loyola-Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator. Her work reflects upon such issues as cultural dis/placement, language, post-colonialism, and the environment offering a critical view and questioning current notions of corporate economic development. She works primarily in media arts, including single-channel video art, video installations, digital printmaking, and most recently in documentary, and has also ventured into performance through theater and dance. Formally, she explores the possibilities that digital media offers for layering and compositing, as a mean to create images with multiple levels of depth. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.
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'Hibridos, sin Lineaje', video, 2009
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Recently she has been interested in developing images that emerge from systems of ephemeral bodies, and the multiplication of these systems into organic visual environments.
Obsessive collector of images, her visual narratives are informed by elements ranging from candy wrappers to interviews with random characters she meets in her travels.
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'The Need to Wash the Self with Milk and Honey'
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'Bizarre Encounters', 2009
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'SURvivors', video, 2005
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Always interested in what has not been told or represented, her latest works deal with that which refuses to be captured, cataloged, and identified. The series of prints 'Bizarre Encounters' captures the online conversations of multiple people and pairs them up with digital collages of street signs, shadows of people, graffiti, urban environments, etc.
"Her video works juxtapose various styles: documentary, abstraction and theatrical styles all weaving in and out to tell a more comprehensive story. This juxtaposition allows the viewer to oscillate between fantasy and reality, which evinces the complexities at play in contemporary societal concerns".
-Patricia Villalobos-Echeverria, artist and scholar.
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Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including such venues as the 10th Havana Biennial; Bangkok Experimental Film Festival; Biennial of Video and New Media in Santiago, Chile; Three Rivers Film Festival in Pittsburgh, PA; Biennial Arte Nuevo InteractivA in Merida, Mexico; SPACE Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA; Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; among others.
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'Bizarre Encounters', series of digital prints.
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She has received grants from the Chilean Video Committee, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, the School of Communication and Information Systems at Robert Morris University, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, the Multicultural Arts Initiative, and the Heinz Endowment; and during the spring of 2008 she was an artist in residence with Grupo Forja, in Valencia, Spain. She has also curated several exhibitions in Pittsburgh and in Spain, and her work has been included in various catalogs and publications nationally and internationally.
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