SHULI DURA

NOME:

Shuli Dura

LOCAL:

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

LINKS:

https://www.instagram.com/shulidura

BIOGRAFIA:

Julissa Dura is an uruguayan photographer born in 1996. She started as a self-taught doing selfportaits at the age of fourteen. Since 2013, she has participated in different workshops about photography, theatrical design, art direction and audiovisual script. Also since 2017, Shuli is part of the photography community Women Photograph, and from 2019 is part of Archivo X and works as a resident artist at Colectivo Careta, a space of creation for performatic dissidences. Her work is a window to her true nature, it is based upon the construction of different perceptions and narratives about identity that emerge from her own self and the society and culture she lives in. In her images, each element; such as symbols, scenes or signs, are conceived through a blend of research and playful experimentation, open to the challenge of spontaneous creation. The power of change, the opportunity given by art to embody a new identity or persona whenenever it is needed, is always a liberating and psychologically relieving process for trans people like us that is reflected in Julissa’s photography. In order to create her pictures, Julissa understands photography as a medium with infinite possibilities for visual artists, in which staging and performance are a fundamental part of the composition in her creative process. Prop and costume making or especific ephemeral installations are made as a way to imagine a final picture. Also using digital tools to enhance her work, is frequently another disruptive element in her photographs ; in this way Shuli combines reality and fantasy unmasking the different levels of fiction and documentary that we can find mixed in her work.

CURRÍCULO:

• Her work has been shown collectively, both national and internationally in more than eighteen opportunities. Among them , we can stand out her participation in 2016 at the 57º Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales (UY) being the youngest artist to take part in such an event in Uruguay, and individually “Crisálida”, her exhibition about her first approach to her transition that took part in the Centro de Fotografia de Montevideo at the same year.
• 2020: “Híbridas paganas” Azoteas CCE; “Mirrorball” CCE.
• 2019: Premio Movida Joven
• 2018; SinCensura Teatro Solis Sala Estela Medina; Noche de performance Pensión Milán; “Bajo el hormigón, la playa”.
• 2018: Muestra de maquetas preseleccionadas – CDF; 4º Encuentro de Fotolibros(CEF); DECAJÓN 10 años- Teatro Solís Sala Estela Medina; Revelando Construcciones – SUBTE; SlideLuck Mvd 3º edición- EAC.
• 2017: Photography on a postcard -Theprintspace; Festival Errante.
• 2016: Individual “Crisálida”- Sede CdF; Exhibición 57° Premio Nacional de Artes Visuales “Octavio Podestá” – MNAV.
• 2015: “Convivencias”-Centro de exposiciones SUBTE; Encuentro Arte y Juventud; Festival de Cine Llamale H-Muestra fotográfica-CCE.
• 2014: DE CAJÓN 6ta edición-Fundación Unión; Colectivo.Uy 5ta Edición.
• 2013: Premio Movida Joven
• 2013; Aquelarre 20 años Fotograma:13- Museo Torres García.