Bio & Project Information
Mabel Valdiviezo is an award-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist who creates immersive works through film, video art, mixed media, and performance. Utilizing a poetic vocabulary, Valdiviezo explores migration, identity, belonging, and healing justice. Her practice is grounded in the Latinx community and her identity as an immigrant artist living between liminal spaces. A self-proclaimed artist-techno-shaman born in Peru, Valdiviezo draws inspiration from Latin American culture, ancestral medicine, and the potential of tech art for social justice. Her films use traditional and experimental storytelling techniques, video archives, and evocative narration to reveal societal contradictions. Her luminous acrylic mixed-media paintings of immigrant families celebrate their innate humanity. In her 2019 multimedia performance “Metamorphosis,” Valdiviezo explored women’s empowerment through interactive visuals. Her documentary “Prodigal Daughter” about immigration and family reconnection is currently screening at festivals nationwide.
Valdiviezo will use The ReGen Artist Fund for “A Sense of Belonging,” an interactive multisensory installation featuring mixed-media paintings, poetic audio testimonials, aromatic herbs, and a participatory storytelling workshop that explores the nexus of immigration, belonging, home, identity. The project will uplift the South American immigrant community living and working in the Mission and the complex narratives of belonging that embody their experiences.