Join us for a conversation between Cloud Sediments – Hyphen Lab artists Verónica Posada Álvarez and Arne Sjögren, moderated by stav B. This will be a hybrid event, accessible both at Ambika P3 in London and online. Register here.

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Verónica Posada Álvarez studied Graphic Design in Medellín, Colombia. In 2017 she graduated from her MA in Arts and Visual Culture at the University of Westminster in London-England. Currently, she is studying a PhD in Cultural Studies at CREAM (Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media) at the University of Westminster, for which she works with the Latin American diaspora in London. She has worked as a Museographer at the Museum of Antioquia and other cultural institutions. Verónica works as a lecturer teaching courses related to Design and Socio-cultural Theory.

Verónica has an interest in contemporary artistic practices that aim to raise political concerns for the purpose of improving the life of communities at risk within cities through visual culture. Additionally, Verónica works with collage and photography as means of expression from which it is possible to address feminist concerns.

Arne Sjögren is a filmmaker and researcher whose multimedia practice explores fictionalised responses to historical events as seen from multiple and differing perspectives. Based on family interviews, family archives and personal memories, he uses intermedial assemblages to explore a variety of individual narrative voices that intersect with the wider historical context. He completed a practice-based PhD in 2021 at the University of Westminster, London, UK. He is a co-founder of Hyphen Journal and is part of its editorial collective.

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stav B is a visual artist, conceiving and manifesting a cross-disciplinary body of work that has been developing and evolving since her graduations. Her current practice combines spoken word, live art and installation, still and moving image, sound and scent, all of which have been incorporated and synthetically established for a multimedia presentation.

Her work is placed at the junctions of visual art and performance and deals with the on-going theme of (sexual) identity, love, the politics of the female gaze, the aesthetics of beauty, obsession and transformation, nature and evolution, space and spectator.

stav B’s current PhD research project combines experimental creative practice, auto-ethnography, artist interviews and critical analysis. It draws from her own life experiences as a lesbian woman, as well as her artistic practice with multidisciplinary performances, including soundscapes, still images and experiments. She is interested in the concept of the archive, collecting forgotten stories and situating the loss of urban and culturally important, for lesbian women, spaces, as a context to explore her artistic practice in relation to geopolitical impacts of brutal capitalist systems.