Vir Andres Hera is a graduate of Mo.Co. and Le Fresnoy Studio, and he is pursuing a doctorate at UQÀM in Montréal. They have pursued residencies at La Casa de Velazquez and Triangle-France, among others. They also belong to the editorial board of Qalqalah, and teach at the Annecy’s Expérimental School of Art. His work has recently been exhibited at HKW (Berlin), Gaîté Lyrique (Paris) and Mimosa House (London), etc. Vir Andres Hera’s work oscillates between video installations, films, sound pieces and writings, questioning the
multiple relationships between reality and memory, he interrogates the links between intimate narratives and geopolitical history. They invent embodied utopias whose language juggles vernacular and scholarly codes. They envision their work as a modern-day Chinampa: a floating island in which different species grow together and feed off each other. This Chinampa is nurtured in complicity with a community of performers, photographers, craftspeople, writers, poets, curators, scientists, historians and researchers he has met in different contexts and geographies. Through these diasporic and migratory experiences, he attempts to redefine the weight of colonial continuum. By bringing Queer, Chicanx and Black perspectives to the fore, they reappropriate alternative and partial narratives, accepting the superimposition of linguistic realities and the plurality of bodies that express themselves through them. His gesture lies in the mastery of his multi-screen montages, reflecting a non-linear, fractured time; as well as in the handcrafted shaping of his enigmatic, dreamlike images. In the words of Eva Barois de Caevel: “Vir is the one who listens, this is why their images are full of voices. Vir is the one who listens, the great time of emancipation; in a furious world”.