Daniela Stubbs-Leví

Statement

Daniela Stubbs-Leví delves into the relativism implied in remembering: memory is not a fixed device but an ever-changing frame with which we measure reality. We oscillate between disciplines observing their interactions and their detectable manifestations, and the unbreakable bond between absent-present, human-machine, remembered-imagined, real, and fiction.

The conceptual core of Daniela Stubbs-Leví´s research-based practice results in free-floating vignettes composed by mediums in dialogue such as video, photography, sound, drawing, collage, writing, artist books, poems, and what suits best in order to make her thinking visible.

GlogauAIR Project

Daniela Stubbs-Leví was born in Berlin but quickly displaced. Her experiences there have not been registered in a place where she could revisit. The memories are absent, so she tries to recollect with photos, stories, and documents to imagine those memories. She is confronted by the absence of them as much as time-space is confronted by the absence of the star in the phenomena of a black hole. Both Astrophysics and Psychoanalysis aim to discover the genesis of the source. This process builds up to a point of speculation and utopic clarity. But what happens when we confront this with actuality and materiality?

CV Summary

• Peruvian artist, poet, and musician based in New York City.
• BA in Graphic Arts from Toulouse Lautrec in Lima, Peru.
• BFA in Visual Arts from the University Paris VIII in France.
• Curates shows.
• Self-publishes artist books as a co-founder of current press.
• Participates in musical collaborations.
• Participated in the residency of NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY.
• Work has been shown in Paris, Lima, London, and New York.

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