Esmeralda Valencia Lindström

About Esmeralda Valencia Lindström

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

I am course-responsible for year one but teach across all years of the BFA programme. I also teach on electives in spatial practices and performance, attended by students across the programs of Fine Art, Photography, Literary Composition, Design, and Craft. I have a longstanding interest in the group critique as a teaching format, and every year I work with students to develop and shape how this format is used to best suit the group and the individuals within it.

As an artist, I work in a range of mediums, including video, installation, objects, sound, text, and performance. I am interested in the interlinked existences of humans and other forms of life. Projects tend to emerge out of an interest in 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. The work questions the archive as a static entity, considering what resists preservation as well as what is overlooked in these spaces of recorded histories. Through the form of an alternative property survey, I attempt 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.