Aissa Maria Santiso
About the Artists:
Aissa Santisso's work explores how the perception of the past is often a manipulation or reconstruction of the images engraved on both our personal and collective memory.
For Santiso, painting is a personal process, which starts from an intimate relationship between the human being, the surface, and the surrounding reality.
Her work is based on a compilation of images from family photos, stills from films, or classical works of art throughout history. The images in her paintings are manipulated and transformed in abstractions by superimposing finishes and layers of color, created through stains and washes, and by rearranging the frames of the original images.
Biography:
Aissa María Santiso Camiade, Cuban multimedia artist born in Havana on April 20, 1992. She studied visual arts at the University of Arts ISA and the National Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro both in Havana, Cuba. She now lives in Madrid, Spain.
Her profile includes several disciplines within the visual arts such as video art, video installation, new media art, painting, photograph and performance art.
Her work has been exhibited in various galleries and events such as the Biennials of Havana XI 2012 and XII 2015. The America Late 2 International Art Festival in the Museum of America celebrated in Madrid, Spain in 2018. Belluard International Festival 2016, Fribourg, Switzerland. Clouse up / Video art Festival, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Experiments in Cinema (Cubano edition) International Experimental Film Festival 2017, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. 6th Salon of Contemporary Art of Havana and the 19th Salon of the City, Havana, Cuba. First Symposium of Installation, Nayarí, Mexico. The Galería de Arte Cubana of Boston. Oswaldo Guayasamín Museum in Havana. Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, the College of the Bahamas, Nassau. Center for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV), Havana, among others.
In 2013, she won the prize of the art creation and scholarship ESTUDIO 21 for the SCISSORS project awarded by the Center for the Development of Visual Arts (CDAV), the National Council of Plastic Arts (CNART) and the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Moreover, in July 2016 she was awarded with the Watch & Talk residence for the 2016 International Belluard Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland. Also in 2019 she got the prize of the Emergent Artist in the International Photograph Festival BFoto 2019 in Huesca, Spain. Currently in 2020, she was selected as one of the Emergent Contemporary and Young Artists in La Arte Informada Próxima Generación 2020 in Madrid, Spain.
She currently lives and works in Madrid, Spain.
Publications:
"Barking all night" by Maria de Lourdes Marino Fernández. Experiments in Cinema Festival 2017.
"Art = Life. Cuban artist Aissa Santiso "by Rebecca M. Alvin. Provincetown Magazine, June 2, 2016, vol: 3907, page 32.
Acrobats: Aissa Interfaces by Abdel Hernandez San Juan.
Circuit eclipsed on the subject of SCISSORS, by Abdel Hernández S.Juan, tabloid of Cuban Art 9/2015.
Ways to Understand the Screen by Aissa Santiso, Experiments in Cinema Yearbook #3: The Cubano Edition, Volume 3, pp 74-86.
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EDEL BORDON, DARWIN ESTACIO MARTINEZ, ANDREY QUINTANA + AISSA SANTISO
June 20 - July 1, 2024
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Edel Bordon + Guillermo Estrada Viera + Aissa Santiso + Juan Carlos Vazquez Lima
June 15 - June 28, 2018
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Edel Bordon & Aissa Santiso
August 4 - August 16, 2017
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Aneet R. Fontes, Dairan Fernandez de la Fuente and Aissa Santiso
July 17 - August 6, 2015
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Edel Bordón, Pablo Bordón, Yamile Pardo & Aissa M. Santiso
July 3 - July 17, 2014
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