Laura Huertas Millán

Biography

French-Colombian visual artist and filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán blends the cinematic with critical and alternative ethnographies, presenting viewers with a unique form of speculative fiction that explores subjectivity and history. Drawing from field work, relationships, autobiography, collaborations, and long-term research, her works reflect the complex realities and ecologies produced by colonialism. The artist traces alternate histories by hybridising archives, first-person accounts and myths with immersive and intuitive cinematography, taking viewers along composite narratives across foliage, time and space.

Huertas Millán’s work has been screened at in film festivals such as the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin (2021); London Short Film Festival (2021); Berlinale (2020); Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) (2018); Rotterdam International Film Festival (2018); New York Film Festival (2018), Locarno Film festival (2018) and Cinéma du Réel (2018). Her work has been exhibited in several solo exhibitions in institutions such as Museu de arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (2019); Maison des Arts de Malakoff, France (2018); and Medellin Museum of Modern Art, Colombia (2016). Her films have also been exhibited at Liverpool Biennial (2021); Times Art Berlin (2019); Videonnale (2019); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2017); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017); FRONT Triennial, Cleveland (2017) and Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014).

Her works are part of private and public collections such as Kadist, San Francisco; Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France; Banco de la República de Colombia; FRAC Lorraine, France; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; Départements des Hauts-de-Seine, France; and Département de Seine-Saint-Denis, France.

She has received awards from Locarno Film Festival (2018); FIDMarseille (2016) and Doclisboa (2016), Videobrasil (2013), among others.

Huertas Millán holds a practice-based PhD (2017) in Ethnographic Fictions developed between PSL University (SACRe doctoral program) and the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Harvard University) and MFA from Beaux-Arts de Paris (2009) and Le Fresnoy (2012).

Born in 1983 in Bogotá, the artist lives and works in Paris.

SAF participation:
Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023)