Claudia Bitran moved to the US to attend Rhode Island School of Design for her MFA degree in Painting, and relocated to NY after her Thesis Show in Brooklyn. She has shown her work in the US, Chile, Taiwan, Scotland, Germany and Mexico. She obtained the Van Lier Trust grant, Jerome Foundation Grant for Emerging Filmmakers, Emergency Grant for Artists, Roswell Artist in Residence Program, and was part of numerous and very prestigious residencies like Smack Mellon in NYC, where she recently was a Studio Artist Resident. As fans of Claudia’s work, we visited her studio in Smack Mellon to learn all about her practice and the residency.
We are obsessed with her video remakes, specially with Titanic. Claudia has been working on her ongoing “shot for shot” reinterpretation of Titanic for 4 years, it’s a very ambitious and amazing project.
CB: When I first had this idea about reenacting Titanic, I presented it to the Museo de Artes Visuales in Chile. A year later they invited me to have an exhibition of this project. The show consisted of two floors of the Museum where I could display props, sets and performance remains, as well as small screens with excerpts, in addition to a large projection in which I showed excerpts of the film.
