Paloma Contreras Lomas’ work actively moves across the territories of writing, video, drawing, and performance, alongside collective production that runs parallel to her personal research. Her practice addresses a range of problematics such as class displacement, literary fiction as a tool, landscape as context, costume, and witness, Latin American science fiction, and the terrors of the middle class.

Throughout her career, Contreras Lomas has created, populated, and expanded a “pantheon” of characters that, whether representing paradigmatic or specific entities, originate from sources as varied as major geopolitical events and pop culture. This cast of characters first unfolds through texts that intertwine fantasy with autobiography, and later manifests in formats that contend with their own monumentality, heightened vigor, and baroque narrative.

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