Paula Hurtado Otero
Muttering Incantations
04.12.22–15.01.23
Paula Hurtado Otero, The Carrier, The Plot, The Instrument, 2022, installation view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, photo: Fred Dott
Paula Hurtado Otero, The Carrier, The Plot, The Instrument, 2022, installation view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, photo: Fred Dott
Paula Hurtado Otero, The Carrier, The Plot, The Instrument, 2022, installation view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, photo: Fred Dott
Paula Hurtado Otero, The Carrier, The Plot, The Instrument, 2022, installation view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, photo: Fred Dott
Paula Hurtado Otero, The Carrier, The Plot, The Instrument, 2022, installation view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, photo: Fred Dott
Paula Hurtado Otero, The Carrier, The Plot, The Instrument, 2022, installation view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, photo: Fred Dott
Paula Hurtado Otero, The Carrier, The Plot, The Instrument, 2022, installation view, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, photo: Fred Dott
Paula Hurtado Otero, The Carrier, The Plot, The Instrument, 2022, detail, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, photo: Fred Dott
Paula Hurtado Otero, The Carrier, The Plot, The Instrument, 2022, detail, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, photo: Fred Dott
Paula Hurtado Otero, The Carrier, The Plot, The Instrument, 2022, detail, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, photo: Fred Dott
Paula Hurtado Otero, The Carrier, The Plot, The Instrument, 2022, detail, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, photo: Fred Dott
Paula Hurtado Otero, The Carrier, The Plot, The Instrument, 2022, detail, Künstlerhaus Bremen 2022, photo: Fred Dott
In her multimedia installations, Paula Hurtado Otero explores forms of storytelling and questions narratives shaped by colonization. Her artistic practice is based on long-term research, collaborations and travels. During her one-year studio grant at Künstlerhaus Bremen, Hurtado Otero investigated vessels as potential archives and carriers of invisible histories. In her final presentation, titled Muttering Incantations, the artist combines video, sound, text, and objects to create an installation that suggests a story of bodies within the interplay of the five elements earth, water, fire, air and space. Hurtado Otero is interested in the community-building and unifying element of narratives and the potential of fiction to draw an alternative, multi-perspectival reality.
Paula Hurtado Otero (b. 1988 in Colombia), has lived and worked in Bremen since 2011. She studied fine arts at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and graduated in 2019 as a master student with Natascha Sadr Haghighian. In 2014, she received a scholarship from the DAAD and in 2016 the Heinz A. Bockmeyer travel scholarship. She participated in projects in Bremen, Berlin, Mainz and Bogota.
