Andrea Franco






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 Andrea Franco is a visual artist and filmmaker born in Lima Peru, and based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work explores the connection between the ocean and her ancestry, drawing on the sea’s emotional, cultural, and mythological weight. Franco’s interdisciplinary practice delves into the mystical and symbolic dimensions of water, drawing on its role as a silent witness and guardian of mysteries. Rooted in cycles of nature and memory, her works invite a contemplative encounter with inner landscapes, the cosmos, and the unseen.

Her films and artworks has been exhibited in institutions and festivals such as: Guggenheim Museum (New York), Pacific Standard Time (Los Angeles), Museum of the Moving Image (New York), Museo de Arte de Lima, Matadero Madrid, Flaherty Seminar (New York), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Cineteca Nacional de Mexico, Museo Metropolitano de Lima, Lima Film Festival. Franco is the recipient of the Best National Film Award at Lima Alterna Film Festival 2021. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. 

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The images that sow mystery

When one approaches the moving images of Andrea Franco, the spirit is brought to abysmal shifts. The permanence of an image becomes sea and then it becomes wind and human flow. Like the eyes, which seem to be static, they oscillate incessantly creating the illusion of cinematic movement. 
The registration of images is nothing but a cartography of their memory, a loving way of inhabiting the territory again and again in the same way with a renewed walk, perhaps wiser. 
           Andrea Franco’s gaze leads us to an unstable stillness, to a permanent questioning of what we see in order to discover the connection with the beloved land and everything that is born from it. Her images are memory and expectation of cyclical events, like the seasons, like sowing, like cinema.


 Las imágenes que siembran misterio

Cuando unx se acerca a las imágenes en movimiento de la cineasta peruana Andrea Franco, se arrima el espíritu a desplazamientos abismales. La permanencia de una imagen se vuelve mar para luego ser viento y convertirse en flujo humano. Como los ojos, que parecen estar estáticos, oscilan incesantemente creando la ilusión del movimiento cinematográfico.
 El registro de las imágenes no es otra cosa que una cartografía de su memoria, una forma amorosa de habitar el territorio una y otra vez de la misma manera con un andar renovado, más sabio quizá. 
La mirada de Andrea Franco nos conduce a una quietud inestable, a una permanente interrogación por lo que vemos para así descubrir la conexión con la tierra querida y todo lo que nace de ella. Sus imágenes son memoria y expectación de acontecimientos cíclicos, como las estaciones, como la siembra, como el cine.

— Geraldine Salles Kobilanski