“Flux”

A body defies its exterior, wandering from impotency to vital force. A red tissue wraps it and cuts it off from the rest of the world. The body gradually fuses with the elements around it—a clay building, a valley, a river—striving to balance the inner and outer world.

“Windmaker”

Windmaker depicts a woman striving to control and understand the outer world. Her contact with the infinite through natural elements makes her body unstable—she struggles in her loneliness to define her own shape and to fuse with the space surrounding her.

Born in 1976, Kika Nicolela is a new media artist working with single-channel videos, video installations, performances, experimental documentaries and photography. Nicolela graduated from University of Sao Paulo in 2000, and also completed film courses at UCLA—University of California in 2002. Since then, she has developed her personal works, which have been exhibited and awarded in festivals of more than 30 countries, such as: Videoformes New Media & Video Festival (France), Kunst Film Biennale (Germany), ACA Media Arts Festival (Japan), VAD Festival Internacional de Video i Arts Digitals (Spain), International Electronic Art Festival Videobrasil (Brazil), AluCine Toronto Latin@ Media Festival (Canada) and Exis Experimental Film & Video Festival (South Korea).

In 2005, her first documentary feature film, “Woman Cries Out!”, received the award of Best Film at both CineEsquemaNova (Brazil) and Cineport (Portugal). The same film was nominated by UNESCO for the Breaking The Chains Award for the Best Film on the Theme of Slavery and its Outcomes.

She has participated in exhibitions at Gallery 1313 (Toronto), Galeria des Angels (Barcelona), 3LD Art & Technology Center (New York), Point Ephémère (Paris), Paço das Artes (Sao Paulo), Galeria Vermelho (Sao Paulo), and Galeria Olido (Sao Paulo), among others.