Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cabana
Lima, Callao, Perù / 1991
Lives and works in London, UK
CV
Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana redefines the concept of immersive new media through an interdisciplinary methodology to his artistic practice. The artist’s visual vocabulary combines stylistic elements of video, performance, fine art, and folklore, exploring mediatic intersections of these elements all at once. Deeply informed by themes of cultural identity and Afro Diasporic genres, Rodriguez Cambana’s approach develops eclectic strategies of personal storytelling, lived subject matter, and the theater of the everyday. Parting from personal experiences, notions of community, and intimate narratives, Rodriguez Cambana recovers moments from history and places them in a visual context of contemporaneity. In his previous projects such as Ópera de Balcón, at Cell Project Space, the multilayered installation echoes intimate instances and spaces between Black/indigenous communities—with their particular understanding of what migration undertakes as a life experience— and reflections of performative nuances within conceptual and physical landscapes constantlychanging. Rodriguez Cambana’s work problematizes socio-cultural notions of permanence, the complexity of memory and its adjacent biased emotional imagery. He creates, interprets, and translates his own lived reality in a critical attempt to decipher the history and narrative of the African diaspora collective identity. In doing so, he turns to the full array of semantic possibilities present in the deliberate use of mediums linked to memory and affective bonds in the archive.