Going through Azucena Losana’s films is to come across with lots of faces and places, times and textures. As if she were trying to create an anthropology of her own, Losana makes pocket city symphonies and human scale portraits, she concentrates frantic crowds within super 8 frames, and she draws with her camera the lines of a life full of experiences and encounters. A study on the people of the present,who has also its counterpart in her exploration of the past, through an endless excavation, in which she has unearthed orfan films, home movies and commercial discards of all kinds, in a sort of archaeology of the recent past. Documents she has been re-using and re-interpreting the last years, building a work that moves fluently from cinema to performance,installation, collage, photography and drawing.
Azucena Losana was born in Mexico in 1977, and she has been living and working in Buenos Aires the last eleven years. Her work as an artist intertwines with her activity (past and present) in different collectives: in Mexico, in the Trinchera Ensamble and LEC, and in Argentina with DNI and Circuito CiN!CO, also organizing screening events. She has worked in the mythical Arco Iris lab in Buenos Aires, and from some years on she has also tackled archival and preservation works. Since her times in the Trinchera Ensamble, to which she associated in 2004, she has built an artistic oeuvre from which we feature here a selection of film works and short performances.
