Esmeralda Valencia Lindström

About Esmeralda Valencia Lindström

I am an artist and educator currently working as a lecturer in Fine Art on the BFA Programme at HDK-Valand.

I am course responsible for year one, but I also teach in year two and three on the BFA programme. I also teach on electives in sculpture and performance attended by students across the programs of Fine Art, Photography, Literary Composition and Craft.

 As an artist I work in a range of formats including video, installation, objects, sound, and performance, and the work often focus on the interlinked existences of humans and other forms of life. The research tends to emerge out of an interest for a specific site and there is an ongoing focus on archives and locations of storage. Recent research uses dry rot as a lens through which to look at the water damaged collection in the Women’s art library at Goldsmiths’ Special Collections in London, questioning the archive as a static entity, and considering what resists preservation as well what is overlooked in these spaces of recorded histories. The work takes the form of an alternative property survey, attempting to see the building from a more than human perspective aided by dry rot.

My practice also includes various collaborations, and I have worked curatorially and with artist-run galleries both in Sweden and the UK.