ALEJANDRA POMBO SU: WHAT LOOKS AT ME SURROUNDINGS ME

Session with Alejandra Pombo Su on the closure of her residency at Bulegoa z/b. Her proposal What Looks At Me Surroundings Me was selected for residency along with Vida Neus a veces by María Cerdá Acebrón in our 2021 open call. The jury was comprised by Iratxe Jaio (artist), Laura Vallés Vilches (curator, editor and researcher) and the members of Bulegoa z/b.

ALEJANDRA POMBO SU: WHAT LOOKS AT ME SURROUNDINGS ME
During my time in residency at Bulegoa z/b, I’m working on new material relating to my broader investigation of animal becoming as an experience of being in being there. Being as an encounter of the body, which is not a body but a place.

Alejandra Pombo Su (Santiago de Compostela, 1979) obtained a Degree in Fine Arts with the Universidad Complutense (Madrid). She extended her studies in Barcelona with a Masters in Digital Arts at Universidad Pompeu Fabra and then the PEI Independent Study Program, MACBA. Doctor in Fine Arts with a thesis on the paradoxes and effects of the introduction of the notion of performance in the field of art. Pombo Su has taken part in projects such as What is Third (Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2015), Primer Proforma (MUSAC, León, 2010) and Mugatxoan (2004-2009), Laboral (Gijón), Fundação Serralves (Porto) and Arteleku (San Sebastian). She has also been a resident artist at I-Park Foundation (Connecticut, US); Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida, US); PACT-Zollverein (Essen, Germany); MAC (A Coruña); Casa Encendida (Madrid); CA2M (Madrid); and Ranchito, Matadero (Madrid) among others. She has recently been awarded the FMJJ 2021 Artist Residency on their first open call.