Screen 1: archive images of the Whitstable Museum documenting the floods of , and Screen 2: Narrative script performed at the Whitstable Biennale The Sea as Common Ground From a Wave Point of View , , Still from the live performance and two channel video-installation with images that detail the floods of , and A Score for Mother and Child, four-channel video installation, video still.
A Score for Mother and Child, four-channel video installation, beta cam. Ghost Images, lithography and inkjet print on paper, series of 5 each, 41 x 57 cm. Born in Amsterdam and raised in Buenos Aires. Both research-based and intuitive, Zito Lema works with archival material and personal memory.
Her projects seek to investigate history as it is passed through generations, and in turn, as a tool to rethink the present. Growing up between Argentina and the Netherlands, Zito Lema is influenced by movements: of the body in space, across geographies; and of the past into the present. She often explores workshop methodologies as a part of her creative process, and creates different constellations from which to re-write, re-imagine or question the past.
The relation between memory, body and archive has long been at the core of her territory of experimentation. Questions about social memory and how the body can function as an agent of resistance and a transmitter of knowledge are at stake in her practice. Through her work she intends to reflect on images, events and the way we perceive them, evoking the various manifestations of the past into the contemporary realm of the sensible. Zito Lema lives and works in Amsterdam.
Her work was shown in numerous international solo and group exhibitions at a. Scryer in the Archive, Mercer Union, Toronto.
