03 Sep Claudia Claremi
Claudia Claremi
Claudia Claremi is an artist and filmmaker. Her work combines video, analogue film, photography, installation, sound, and text. She graduated from the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) and the University of the Arts London (UK). Claremi has been an artist-in-residence at Beta Local (Puerto Rico), CRA Matadero (Madrid), VSW (Rochester, NY), and The Clemente (NY). Her films have screened at festivals like Ann Arbor, Rotterdam, Raindance, Oberhausen and Guadalajara, and her work has been shown in CVA Denver, MAMM Medellín, HKW Berlin, La Casa Encendida, CA2M and Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid among others.
The 2024 CCI + WOPHA Fellowship is presented by PAMM’s Caribbean Cultural Institute in collaboration with Women Photographers International Archive and the support of El Espacio 23.
La memoria de las frutas (The Memory of Fruits)
During her CCI + WOPHA Fellowship, Claudia Claremi will expand her ongoing series La memoria de las frutas (The Memory of Fruits), a large-scale research-based project exploring the sensory and emotional bonds people have with fruit. In this new chapter of the project, she will focus on members of the Caribbean migrant communities in Miami and their personal memories of Caribbean fruits. Using black-and-white 16mm film and 35mm photography to capture the empty hands of participants—who gesture as they describe the different fruits they remember—and text fragments derived from their oral testimonies, she sheds light on the larger impact of industrial agriculture in the Caribbean, the migratory pathways of fruit and of humans, the diminishing presence of fruit trees in Caribbean yards and streets, and the challenges Caribbean people face in accessing fruit that was once plentiful. Once complete, La memoria de las frutas will form a collective narration of the structural causes of this cultural disconnection and oblivion while, in the process, restoring individual histories and honoring the fruits associated with them.
