Ana Andrade

Ana Andrade uses photography, video, text and objects to document her world, which she experiences in two scales, the broad scale of the social documentary and also the micro scale beyond the naked eye. In both cases she is interested in what she calls “vital displacement” -- the physical, psychological, textual, biological, geological, genealogical experience of being in our world. Her process involves a series of anthropological experiments, often utilizing scientific tools and experiments.

In Chicxulub, Andrade is interested in the effects of meteors, these objects from outer space that cross the atmospheric layer towards earth. By capturing the waters of the Yucatan Peninsula where Chicxulub is known to have collapsed, her work challenges us to think about the origins of life and the reverberations of macro cosmical events on history in multiple scales, including the ancient Mayans who believe in another dimension of life after sacrifice in rock water wells that were formed after this asteroid impacted on earth.