Journey To The Underworld
Video, 10:00 min, 2021
Journey to The Underworld is a matrilineal collaboration between three generations of women: the artist, her mother, and her two grandmothers. The video reflects on social constructions and how they shape, and at times repress, notions of pleasure and desire, tracing how these ideas are formed, inherited, and subtly contested across generations.
Exhibitions:
Royal College of Art, 2021
Door Residency, Netherlands, 2021
New Contemporaries, Humber Street Gallery, 2022
Still Point Magazine, Sleep Issue, 2022
Journey To The Underworld, Paola Estrella, Door Residency, Netherlands
Journey To The Underworld, Paola Estrella, Door Residency, Netherlands
Journey To The Underworld, Paola Estrella, Door Residency, Netherlands
Journey To The Underworld, Paola Estrella, Door Residency, Netherlands
Journey To The Underworld, Paola Estrella, Door Residency, Netherlands
Journey to the Underworld, still of video, Paola Estrella
Journey to the Underworld, still of video, Paola Estrella
Collaborators:
Directed by: Paola Estrella
Costume Design: Gabrielle Venguer
Dancer: Natalia Harrigan
Music: Molly Meet
Tarot: Wandering Oracle
Illustrations: Emilio Cuaik
Song composer: Genia Gabilondo
Translation: Iker Orozco
Edited by: Paola Estrella
Appearances:
Witches: Karla Estrella, Laura Contreras, Gabrielle Venguer
Waiters: Eduardo Vinssac e Iker Orozco
Blue Beard: Emilio Cuaik
Lilith: Daniela Gerdes
Singer: Genia Gabilondo