Curator: Irene Gelfman
Video Project presents a solo show dedicated to the work of artist Donna Conlon, who lives and works in Panama. With a career spanning more than two decades, the U.S.-born biologist and artist (b. 1966) has articulated powerful artistic statements of social and ecological critique through her photographs and videos, which reflect humanity’s reckless behavior in a globalized world.
Trained as a biologist, Donna Conlon brings her scientific focus into the field of art, where she observes her immediate surroundings with the same precision. Through everyday gestures, urban debris, and invisible patterns in daily life, her work reveals the tensions that underlie the relationship between human beings and the natural world.
Conlon concentrates on what often goes unnoticed: displaced objects, repeated actions, fragments that accumulate and decompose. Her works do not illustrate ideas; they distill them. Through videos, photographs, and minimal interventions, she exposes the social, political, and environmental contradictions that define our present, without resorting to direct denunciation.
In her practice, the banal becomes evidence. The immediate environment emerges as archive, field of study, and poetic territory. On a more intimate level, her works are also meditations on fragility, uncertainty, and impermanence: an invitation to observe the world with greater attention and to reconsider the ways in which we inhabit it.