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FLOWS : Working very closely with the indigenous communities with the intention to explore the female voice as a political weapon and the dialectic that are embedded in the moving image and which can generate political action embarking from grass root groups as those of the AfroColombian Diaspora who settled in the mountains of Santa Maria near Cartagena .Their lyrics embodied in their songs are social and communal messages engage with various issues connected with identity, their struggles for preservation, drug wars, death, and in general echoing their personal encounters with their past . The protagonists by choice are all women and the narrative is ruptured by the intervention of a male cello player whose face is never revealed as well as by incorporating pixilated clips appropriated from the archival excess of you tube and video. Both interventions have a symbolic meaning showing the cracks in the representation system.

Jenny Marketou is Greek born and New York based interdisciplinary artist who has participated in a number of leading exhibitions of contemporary art, such as Manifesta, as well as international art biennials such as Prague in Chez Republic; Cartagena des Indias in Colombia, Athens in Greece; Seville in Spain ,Sao Paolo in Brazil , Venice and Istanbul .Her solo exhibitions have been hosted by art institutions, such as, Centre of Contemporary Art (CCA) Glasgow in Scotland; Museum de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid ; the ARTIUM Museum of Contemporary Art in Vitoria, Bilbao, Spain; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn Estonia; National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven; Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK; The New Museum in New York City; Queens Art Museum, Queens, New York among others. She earned her MFA at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York and she has also taught at Cooper Union School of Art . As of 2015 she will be teaching at the School of Art at CAL ARTS (California Institute of the Arts) in California. Marketou is the author of numerous texts on issues concerning moving image including the photography book The Great Longing , Kedros Publishers, Athens, Greece.