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Laurel presents Lorena Solis Bravo – The guest, the host & the ghost
“We are not just human, we are many things”, says Lorena Solís Bravo (1991). In their work, the artist investigates what it means to be human and how we are inextricably linked to the world around us. They start from the symbiotic idea that evolution is driven by cooperation rather than by struggle. Instead of microorganisms eating each other millions of years ago, they started forming new living structures that made new forms of life possible.
Solís Bravo’s work builds on this harmonious idea by asking questions about what makes us human and what defines our identity. A recurring theme is the idea of ‘the other’: who you are is determined by how you relate to the people around you, but also by everything non-human around us, such as bacteria, living and non-living matter, and anything that deviates from the ‘norm’.
In the process of creating and filming the video work The guest, the host & the ghost, Solís Bravo left for Brazil and developed workshops and choreography for 7 performers, in collaboration with choreographer Fernanda Libman and music producer upsammy.
Read the full text by Milo Vermeire here.
About Laurel:
At the core of Laurel, there are three central yearnings: the ability to navigate care, to learn, and the possibility to connect with others. We see Laurel as both a physical and online community that offers real involvement through open collaborative projects – one that explores conversations on the meaning, reasoning and processes behind our collective core beliefs. Since Laurel finds itself in a transitory stage; a state of nomadism, we are currently occupied with appearing in other cultural spaces that are willing to host questions of (non)belonging, and to explore the capability of communities to exist in a broader [removed];
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