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 by a 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 to reflect on her shifting identity by bringing together fragments of these objects and archives.
Bellorín holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in Sociology from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas. She studied photography at the Nelson 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. Bellorín is a participating artist of the 2024 Texas Biennial, was a resident of of Ramona Residency, 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 explore identity, memory, displacement, diaspora, and womanhood, focusing on their emotional and psychological impact. Using personal and collective archives, I question societal narratives by documenting and organizing repetitive gestures, events, and phenomena. My work often blends anthropological research with autobiography, creating a dialogue between collective and intimate experiences.
Primarily working 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. Through installations, books, and performances, I assemble and deconstruct fragments to create my own audiovisual grammar, inviting interpretations rooted in nostalgia and engaging with themes of loss and transformation.
In my recent works I have become interested in the bond between mother and daughter, using archives as spaces that both conceal and reveal. By collecting and cataloging memories and objects, I recreate grounding spaces that reflect my shifting identity and uncover the hidden layers of women’s experiences. My process centers on preserving the ephemeral while grounding myself in an exploration of belonging and transformation.