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Born in 1976, Kika Nicolela is a Brazilian new media artist. Her works include single-channel videos, video installations, performances, experimental documentaries and photography.
Graduated in Cinema and Video by the University of Sao Paulo in 2000, Kika Nicolela also completed film courses at UCLA – University of California in 2002. Since then, she has developed her personal works, which have been screened and awarded in festivals of more than 30 countries, such as: Videoformes New Media & Video Art Festival (France), Kunst Film Biennale (Germany), ACA Media Arts Festival (Japan), VAD Festival Internacional de Video i Arts Digitals (Spain), International Electronic Art Festival Videobrasil (Brazil), AluCine Toronto Latin@ Media Festival (Canada) and Exis Experimental Film & Video Festival (Korea).
In 2005, her first documentary feature film, "Woman Cries Out!", received the award of Best Film at both the festivals CineEsquemaNovo (Brazil) and Cineport (Portugal). UNESCO also nominated the same film for the Breaking The Chains Award.
She has participated of solo and collective exhibitions in Brazil, USA, Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, Poland and Sweden.
She won the following grants: Support to Production in Visual Arts from Sao Paulo Arts Council, Support to Production from Recife Art Week, Exhibition Program by Sao Paulo Cultural Center and Cultural Diffusion and Exchange Program of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture. She received nominations for the Sergio Motta Award of Art and Technology (2007) and the Nascente Art Award (2000). She was selected for the Sumu artist-in-residence 2009 program, in Finland.
Currently Kika Nicolela also coordinates the EXQUISITE CORPSE VIDEO PROJECT, a collaborative series of videos that envolves 35 artists from 16 countries.
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STATEMENT
I work primarily with video and photography.
I'm concerned with examining the connections between the camera,
subject, author and viewer. I'm interested in issues such as the
construction of identity, communication and voyeurism. I also
investigate how the relationship between our body and the surrounding
world (ie. nature or urban settings and culture) shapes our identity.
My greatest challenge is to find new forms of narrative by confronting
established film language. I construct narratives, strategies and
perceptions of reality, in search of fresh ways to connect with the
viewer, defying his/her own perception of the world and proposing
thought-provoking sensorial and emotional experiences.
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