Paola Estrella performance at the Stone Nest - 9 May 2025

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Paola Estrella


The Cenote Ring


9 May 2025, 7.30pm

Stone Nest, 136 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5EZ
 
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With Cenote Ring, multimedia artist Paola Estrella presents an immersive live performance inspired by the myths surrounding an asteroid hitting her native Mexico millions of years ago.

Working across a multitude of analogue and digital media, Estrella takes viewers on a sensorial journey to the underwater portals that link prehistoric memories with speculative utopias. A series of large-scale paintings set the scene with impressions of the otherworldly Yucatan landscapes formed along an ancient impact crater to present a dialogue between natural history and new technologies necessary to continue the cycle of creation, destruction and renewal.

The collaborative performance piece unfolds in three acts and fuses elements of spoken word, sounds and movement, starting with a sonic exploration by María Mónica Gutiérrez who is better known as Montañera.

Gaming technologist Costas Kazantzis and choreographer Pierre Babbage not only contribute their technical expertise but also blend in elements of cyber-physical ecosystems and queer identities. Gabrielle Venguer picked up the language of Paola Estrella's paintings and translated them into costume designs, while the ambient soundscapes by Bon Music Vision incorporate recordings from outer space. 

Cenote Ring at Stone Nest is a one-off opportunity to experience ancestral and futuristic imaginations coming together in a historical building that holds the memories of Welsh worshippers and Limelight clubbers.

The evening concludes with an artist talk moderated by Pia Arreola, Curator of Digital Art at the V&A, and precedes Paola Estrella's solo exhibition of paintings at HS Projects in June.

Paola Estrella is a multimedia artist from Mexico based in London. She has performed at CCA Goldsmiths, South London Gallery and the V&A Est Museum East, among others.

She was commissioned by CW+ to exhibit in ‘Journeys: Healing Arts’ at Saatchi Gallery. She was selected for New Contemporaries 2022. She won the Travers Smith CSR Programme 2021, was shortlisted for the LUMEN Art Prize and exhibited at the Museum of Mexico City in 2021. Her work was selected by White Cube Gallery for Tomorrow:London in 2020.

Estrella holds a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art in Contemporary Art and studied art direction and mixed media at Central Saint Martins.

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