Natalia G. Clark
Field of Work
Director
Countries
Spain, Mexico
Biography
Natalia García Clark is a Mexican artist working primarily in time-based media. Her practice engages with historiography, identity, technology, social movements, and popular culture, approached through a philosophical lens and a deliberate sense of lightness. Defined by meticulous creative processes and a kind of scientific rigor, her work draws on experimentation and the absurd, probing the unknown until it reveals itself. Moving between cinema and art, her narratives oscillate between linear and non-linear structures.
García Clark’s work has been presented in museums and cultural institutions such as the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (2019 Commended Artist), the York Art Gallery, and the Kirchner Cultural Center, among others. Her films have screened at major international festivals including Visions du Réel, the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and the Morelia International Film Festival.
She holds a B.F.A. in Art from CalArts and a Master’s degree in Film from the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola in the Basque Country.
In that climate, the pedestal of Christopher Columbus was occupied by a collective of women. That gesture, captured by the camera, turns Las estatuas into a testament to a turning point, where public space is rewritten in plain sight. The film invites us to question how history is constructed through its symbols, who is included, who is excluded, and how spaces change when history becomes a contested terrain.
