Javiera Tejerina-Risso
Visual Artist and Ph.D
Javiera Tejerina-Risso is a French-Chilean artist based in Marseille. She has a practice-based PhD from Aix-Marseille University and participated in SPEAP program in Sciences Po Paris.
Her work unfolds in the exhibition space primarily in the form of installations and videos and engages deeply with the scientific imagination. It has been shown at Les Tanneries and Châteauvert Art Centers, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Variation Media Art Fair, Objectif Vidéo Nice, the 68th Jeune Création, Dos Mares, at UCLA (USA) and by Bienal Tlatelolca (MX)
POLARIS is an interdisciplinary artistic research project deployed in France, Canada, Mexico, Chile, and Spain. It confronts different representations of the world by exploring the manifestations of power stemming from colonial exploration and questions the role of navigation tools in imperial domination. The project merges exchanges between Europe and the Americas, stars, cartography, quantum physics, and indigenous sciences. The creation of “landscape-installations” will highlight the duality between exploration and exploitation. This project extends the artist’s research on the sea and flows and examines how scientific instruments influence our understanding of the world. Copper and light, essential in navigation and quantum physics, are at the heart of this artistic exploration, highlighting contemporary issues of resources and perspectives of understanding the world.