Jessica Sofia Mitrani

Provenance:  Courtesy of the Artist

Jessica Mitrani is a Colombian-born, New York-based artist that works in performance and film. Employing narrative, humor, and psychoanalytic tropes, she investigates how the social and aesthetic construction of femininity shapes identities.

Her work has been exhibited, screened, and broadcasted internationally. Some of the works she has written and directed include Rita goes to the Supermarket (47 Oberhausen Film Festival), Headpieces for Peace (Grand Prix at the ASVOFF5 Festival at Centre Pompidou, Paris), La Divanee, (Presented by Nowness, Marfa Film Festival, Oaxaca Film Festival) to name a few. In 2016, her theatrical collaboration The Undertaking appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of its New Wave festival and She performed in Ryan McNamara’s Back to School at MoMA PS1 in New York. In 2018 she launched A Crucigramista which is a series of short videos written and directed for ARTE1 (Brazil).

Mitrani received a grant from the Hermès Foundation in support of her immersive film and performance work Traveling Lady (2014) starring iconic Spanish actress Rossy de Palma. The production was presented at the Crossing the Line festival in New York, the New Settings program in Paris, the Soluna International Music and Arts Festival, in Dallas and El Museo del Chopo in Mexico City.