“Dominican Video Art Arrives at India’s Independent Film Festival

“Dominican Video Art Arrives at India’s Independent Film Festival
Santo Domingo, March 12th, 2015

The Ministry of Culture (MINC), in coordination with the Museum of Modern Art (MAM), congratulated artists Guadalupe Casasnovas and Joiri Minaya for representing the Dominican Republic in the third edition of Transmissions, the Lightcube Film Society’s festival of independent films, which will be held at the Cervantes Institute in New Delhi, India.

Both artists were selected recently because of the exhibit they presented at the Status Quo exhibition, which was organized by the Ministry of Culture in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art (MAM).

The video art presented by the Dominican artists in the third edition of the festival of independent films from around the world are “La marcha de las hormigas” (The march of the ants), by Guadalupe Casasnovas, and “Untitled # 3”, by Joiri Minaya.

The festival aims to showcase new and interesting works in the field of moving images, such as movies, collages, animation, video art, archival footage, YouTube playlists, among other multimedia (still images, sound libraries and facilities).

Guadalupe Casasnovas, an Architect and visual artist, has received several awards and recognitions, including First place in digital photography, Funglode; First place at the “Transforma el cemento en arte” (Change cement into art) sculpture contest sponsored by Cementos Cibao, Dominican Republic; First place at “concurso del centenario” (centennial competition) of the Alliance Française; and the Opera Prima prize at the Fifth World Ceramic Tile Triennial.

Joiri Minaya is a visual artist living in New York. She received the Grand Prize at the XXVII National Biennial of Visual Arts, the XXV Eduardo León Jimenes Art Competition award, and a prize at the Youth Exhibition Award, sponsored by the Centro de la Imagen of Santo Domingo

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