Claudia Bitrán (1986) is a multidisciplinary artist who works mainly with paintings and video. Born in Boston, she lived much of her life in Santiago and currently resides in Brooklyn. Her varied work, in which she assumes various roles as a painter, director, producer, editor and actress, aims to recreate, emulate and rewrite the world of mass industry production, and thereby question the power of the different forms that it takes the culture of entertainment and the subjects that inhabit it.
Fallen, her latest work, falls within this search. Fallen is a series of video-animations made with between 30 and 70 paintings on canvas, based on viral videos of drunk teenage girls. Some of them are collapsing, others vomiting, and many are scantily clad. With Fallen, Bitrán immerses himself in the empty spaces of new technologies. If control has always been something difficult to have as a young person, the viralization of moments as intimate as a drunkenness can mean, perhaps for a lifetime, the complete absence of power.
