Bio
Beatriz Bellorín is a Venezuelan-American photo-video artist and documentary filmmaker whose work explores identity, memory, displacement, diaspora, and womanhood. Combining anthropological research with autobiography, she uses archival documents and memorabilia to investigate the entanglements of memory and nostalgia, focusing on their emotional impact. Her latest works—spanning photography, video, installation, and cyanotypes—explore the enduring bond between mother and daughter. Driven bya desire to preserve the ephemeral, Beatriz collects, catalogs, and classifies personal and collective memories, ecofacts, family archives, and inherited objects as anchors of past experiences. She recreates a grounding space toreflect on her shifting identity by bringing together fragments of theseobjects and archives. Bellorín holds an MA in VisualAnthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in Sociology fromUniversidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas. She studied photography at theNelson Garrido Organization (Caracas) and participated in the artistic training program Ecosistema de Afectos (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Selected group and solo shows include Fotofest Houston, Throughline Collective,Holocaust Museum Houston, Post, Houston, Laboratorio Festival, Buenos Aires,Argentina, Winter St Gallery, Houston, Lawndale, Houston, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Aperture Foundation, Museum Fine Arts Houston in the traveling group exhibition of Latin American Photobooks and Espacio MAD,Caracas. Beatriz work has been featured in publications such as Visions of Motherhood, La fotografía impresa en Venezuela, Sur- Revista de foto libros latinoamericanos and Clap10x10: Contemporary Latin American Photobooks 2000-2016. Bellorínis a participating artist of the 2024 Texas Biennial, was resident of RamonaResidency, Texas first residency for artist mothers. She is member of Houston artist collective Throughline. She lives and work in Houston.
Statement
In my artistic practice, I exploreidentity, memory, displacement, diaspora, and womanhood, focusing on theiremotional and psychological impact. Using personal and collective archives, Iquestion societal narratives by documenting and organizing repetitive gestures,events, and phenomena. My work often blends anthropological research withautobiography, creating a dialogue between collective and intimate experiences.
Primarilyworking with photography and video, I incorporate materials such as fabrics,memorabilia, ecofacts,data, and inherited objects to evoke the ephemeral nature of time and memory.These fragmented elements blur the lines between past and present. Throughinstallations, books, and performances, I assemble and deconstruct fragments tocreate my own audiovisual grammar, inviting interpretations rooted in nostalgiaand engaging with themes of loss and transformation.
Recentworks delve into the bond between mother and daughter, using archives as spacesthat both conceal and reveal. By collecting and cataloging memories andobjects, I recreate grounding spaces that reflect my shifting identity anduncover the hidden layers of women’s experiences. My process centers onpreserving the ephemeral while grounding myself in an exploration of belongingand transformation.