Pilar Mata Dupont
audiovisueel - video - fotografie - performance - experimenteel - film
Latina visual artist and filmmaker Pilar Mata Dupont (b. 1981) has a complex and multifaceted practice spanning film, installation, performance, and photography. Her research driven delves into the fallibility and malleability of narratives of history and memory. Her Argentinean background and upbringing in Australia, Argentina, and Brunei Darussalam – all settler states or former colonies – serve as a lens through which she frames her work, and her home of eight years in the Netherlands has become a recent focus of investigation.
Using temporal strategies of looping, fragmentation, and dislocation, she re-imagines histories, memories, and texts, creating alternative readings that question the construction of dominant narratives that shape Western society. Drawing from her background working as an actor and singer she uses a playful lexicon of theatre and cinema in her work as a bridge to varied audiences.