Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist who works primarily through the expanded moving image. She works with a camera because it is a device that is particularly attuned to the improvisational and aesthetic intelligence that is already at work in the world, it is an object that produces relations. Her films and videos are populated by thoughtful natural actors and developed through her writing, structured improvisation, and at times, chance operations. This work is built upon intersecting histories: Boalian theater and experimental ethnographic film, and her recent work is focused on simultaneous narration, the anti-colonial unconscious, and the subjective experience of disorder.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Ottilia at Crac-Alsace, Altkirch, France (2023); and Oriana at PIVO, São Paulo, Brazil (2021) and Argos Centre for Audiovisual Arts in Brussels, Belgium (2023). Her work is part of public and private collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, KADIST, and Guggenheim, among others. She has received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the 2021 Artes Mundi Prize (which was shared among all 7 nominees), and the CARA Fellowship.
