Ni Aquí, Ni Allá (Neither Here, Nor There) | Edison Peñafiel

Residency
Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency

Edison Peñafiel (Sunrise, FL)
January 2018. Installation documentation. Video projection, rope, luggage, trunks. 10′ x 12′ x 10′. 

Peñafiel’s works, influenced by his experiences as a migrant, are immersive multi-media installations that integrate animated video projections and sound seamlessly with physical objects.

Ni Aquí, Ni Allá (Neither Here, Nor There), on Elsewhere’s 3rd floor, is a fantastical parade of irrational imagery in a destabilizing perpetual loop. The projection displays an animated, intermittently changing landscape with people walking endlessly towards a horizon and away from the viewer. Each individual pulls a rope attached to physical bundles of crates, luggage, and other bound piles of symbolic personal belongings placed throughout the installation. The immateriality of virtual projections to physical objects that embody intrinsic meaning and soundscape responding to cyclical themes all interact together to reach a physical metamorphosis for the audience.

Aware of personal and collective experiences as a migrant, Peñafiel is interested in political art. He examines displacement from multiple perspectives and its association with fear, injustice, subjugation, perpetuity, relief, and liberty. Ni Aquí, Ni Allá is designed to evoke thoughts of empathy about the uncertainty of such migratory journeys, and the experiences of physical and psychological torture.

Featured Performers: Riley Kleve, Rimona Law, Kerri Mubaraak, Adrian Quarles, Guido Villalba Portel

Music Composed, Performed, Recorded & Mixed by Ellis Anderson

Community Partner: Scrapmettle Theatre

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Edison Peñafiel
Edison Peñafiel

Edison Peñafiel is an Ecuadorian visual artist living in South Florida. He studied Fine Arts and Art History at the Florida International University, Miami (2016). Having experienced and witnessed first-hand one of the turn of century’s everlasting dilemma—immigration and the economic/political instability in Ecuador/South America, Peñafiel brings the ambiguity of personal experience to global contexts. His installations are most often framed in paradoxical and absurd representations of specific events. Composing with video, drawing, sculpture, and animation, he transforms serious social incidents into potent poetic allegories. Conscious of our innumerable perspectives to interpret the world, Peñafiel uses large projections that blend with actual environments, extending his bizarre video and animated scenes into our reality.

During his residency at Elsewhere, Peñafiel created Ni Aqui, Ni Alla (Neither Here Nor There).

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