Paola Estrella Contreras

Paula Estrella's  practice is about intimacy, desire, and becoming. Auto-fiction, magic realism, and story-telling are central to her work which involves self-reflection, collaboration with other creators, and worldbuilding. During her creative process, she combines mixed media, video, and performance, which often results in video installations. Her projects have become portals that allow me to imagine and exteriorize different possibilities that relate to multiple ways of existence and of understanding reality, which arise from questioning social and political notions about gender, the body, and how we connect with one another. She's interested in how technologies such as VR and social platforms have impacted the way we understand intimacy with ourselves and how we perceive and think about the human experience.