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Lucia Prancha

CHARLES

Experimental doc. | hdv | black and white | 2:38 | Portugal, USA | 2025

Do you remember the scene in Killer of Sheep (1978) where the kids are playing on abandoned railroad tracks? The scene is set in the Watts neighborhood in California. Director Charles Burnett took the artist Lúcia Prancha to several filming locations from his works around Los Angeles.

Lúcia Prancha (1985, Lisboa) is an artist who lives and works in Barcelona. Lúcia graduated in Painting from FBAUL (2009, PT) and obtained her Masters in Arts from CalArts–California Institute of the Arts (2015, USA). Her work was exhibited at Pavilhão Branco, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon; 19 Crac de Montbéliard; Centro de Arte Oliva; Sesc-Pompeia, Sao Paulo; LACA – Los Angeles Contemporary Archives; Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen; Serralves Foundation, Porto; Galeria Dynamo, Porto; Galeria Leme, São Paulo; Berardo Museum and São Paulo Biennial. Her videos were screened at the Cinemateca Portuguesa; INTERSECCIÓN, Coruña; Curtas Vila do Conde; Rencontres Internationales Nouveau Cinéma et Art Contemporain de Paris and, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Currently, she is part of "El vértigo de las imágenes", XVIII Bienal Internacional de Fotografía–Fotonoviembre at TEA–Tenerife Espacio de las Artes and Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife, ES. From September to November, she will be in artistic residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.