Research-Based Art
TRES (ilana boltvinik + rodrigo viñas, Mexico City) is an art-research duo founded in Mexico City, 2009. They engage with critical ecosystems and the socio-territorial implications of the residual. Focused on exploring the associations between humans and more-than-humans, their curiosity has centred on the inquiry of garbage as a socio(aesth)etical residue that entails political, biological, and material implications.
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One fundamental area of their work is the methodological intertwining and the dialogue with science, anthropology, and archaeology among other situated knowledges. By designing social counter-cartographies and participatory practices, TRES explores narratives of all we choose not to see. Their artistic practice is meant to investigate micro and macro phenomena of waste assemblies that entangle human and more-than-human agencies. Through multiple collaborations they enjoy opening critical spaces that question the understanding we have of urban ecologies.
TRES was Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee (2019) and Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University (2016). In 2015 they won the WMA Commission for the first Ubiquitous Trash project in Hong Kong. The outcome: a book and exhibition that explores the global mobility of marine debris. In 2014, the festival Abandon Normal Devices (AND) commissioned TRES to produce Rough Fish, a mobile pervasive game (UK). Their works have been shown in America, Europe and Asia. TRES represented Mexico in the 13th Biennale of La Havana (2019), and have presented in Festival Transitio MX_05 Bio mediations (Mexico, 2013); among others.
Reetu Sattar is a performance-based artist and filmmaker based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her artistic practice is guided by somatic intelligence while reflecting on human perception and imperceptible nature, colonial historiography, environmental refugees and the unequal grounds of labour cycles from Bangladesh.
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She creates durational and intermedia assemblages combining performance, text, installation, photography and filmmaking that revise conventions of theatre. Born in Dhaka, Reetu works and lives in Dhaka. Reetu is trained in experimental theatre and film from The Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen. She holds a postgraduate degree in Visual Arts from Jan Van Eyck Academy, the Netherlands. Her recent exhibitions include Sharjah Art Biennial, Serendipity Arts Festival, Istanbul Biennial, British Textile Biennial, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Liverpool Biennial, and Dhaka Art Summit. Her performances have been staged internationally at venues in London, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Birmingham, Bangkok, Kolkata and Goa. Reetu’s first film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2019, and the second film, Shabnam, premiered at IFFR in 2023. Reetu Sattar is a member of Britto Arts Trust, and Dhaka-based theatre group Prachyanat has been an important part of her practice.
Research-Based Art
TRES (ilana boltvinik + rodrigo viñas, Mexico City) is an art-research duo founded in Mexico City, 2009. They engage with critical ecosystems and the socio-territorial implications of the residual. Focused on exploring the associations between humans and more-than-humans, their curiosity has centred on the inquiry of garbage as a socio(aesth)etical residue that entails political, biological, and material implications.
Read More
One fundamental area of their work is the methodological intertwining and the dialogue with science, anthropology, and archaeology among other situated knowledges. By designing social counter-cartographies and participatory practices, TRES explores narratives of all we choose not to see. Their artistic practice is meant to investigate micro and macro phenomena of waste assemblies that entangle human and more-than-human agencies. Through multiple collaborations they enjoy opening critical spaces that question the understanding we have of urban ecologies.
TRES was Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee (2019) and Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University (2016). In 2015 they won the WMA Commission for the first Ubiquitous Trash project in Hong Kong. The outcome: a book and exhibition that explores the global mobility of marine debris. In 2014, the festival Abandon Normal Devices (AND) commissioned TRES to produce Rough Fish, a mobile pervasive game (UK). Their works have been shown in America, Europe and Asia. TRES represented Mexico in the 13th Biennale of La Havana (2019), and have presented in Festival Transitio MX_05 Bio mediations (Mexico, 2013); among others.
Reetu Sattar is a performance-based artist and filmmaker based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her artistic practice is guided by somatic intelligence while reflecting on human perception and imperceptible nature, colonial historiography, environmental refugees and the unequal grounds of labour cycles from Bangladesh.
Read More
She creates durational and intermedia assemblages combining performance, text, installation, photography and filmmaking that revise conventions of theatre. Born in Dhaka, Reetu works and lives in Dhaka. Reetu is trained in experimental theatre and film from The Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen. She holds a postgraduate degree in Visual Arts from Jan Van Eyck Academy, the Netherlands. Her recent exhibitions include Sharjah Art Biennial, Serendipity Arts Festival, Istanbul Biennial, British Textile Biennial, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Liverpool Biennial, and Dhaka Art Summit. Her performances have been staged internationally at venues in London, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Birmingham, Bangkok, Kolkata and Goa. Reetu’s first film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2019, and the second film, Shabnam, premiered at IFFR in 2023. Reetu Sattar is a member of Britto Arts Trust, and Dhaka-based theatre group Prachyanat has been an important part of her practice.
