Biography

Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco (b. Veracruz, Mexico) is a visual artist whose films and installations focus on the human body and portraiture. In her work the body is explored as a mirror that reflects different states of being; spanning from the personal to the social and political. She has a strong interest in analog and handmade film as a medium that captures the poetics of light and the moving image. Annalisa grew up in Mexico City but has lived in Taiwan, New York and Boston. She is a graduate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design where she majored in Film/Video and Studio for Interrelated Media. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including the Museum of the Moving Image and Mono No Aware Festival in New York, Museo Tamayo in Mexico, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento in Argentina, Fronteira Festival in Brazil, Analogica Festival in Italy, and otherfilm festivals and venues. She is a Princess Grace Foundation Honoraria and recipient of the Stephen D. Paine Scholarship. Annalisa currently resides and works in Mexico City.