Videos performances

VIDEO PERFORMANCES

Performance ABSENCE / CREATIVITY 2024.

Performance ABSENCE / CREATIVITY 2024. After research and a series of workshop with teenagers over a period of two years. this installation and performances are about anxiety and depresion in teenagers in Costa Rica.
The installation & Performance show different stages of the proces of teenagers when they consume drugs, suffer sexual abuse or abuse of social media. Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia Museum, Costa Rica.

Video Performance DEVELOPMENT. DO YOU BELIEVE? 2023. (About femicides in Costa Rica & Spain) Part of the Performance Festivall, Un aguacero. Curator Margarita de Aispuru. Nadie Nunca Nada No, Gallery, Madrid. Spain.

Link: GREEN IN OUR HANDS 2022. Art and climate change With a scholarship that was awarded to the artist Rossella Matamoros, by the Embassy of the United States in Costa Rica in October 2021. The GREEN IN OUR HANDS project was carried out. Proposal that included a series of workshops and an exhibition on art and climate change. These art workshops were given by the artist, in collaboration with the La Selva Biological Station, branch of the Organization Tropical Studies in Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí, Costa Rica, and some professors from the University of Costa Rica.

https://youtu.be/2Nh5VurvwN4?si=KTkX_b7JjsPyU2G1

Link: WALKING TOGETHER 2021
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Video performance, part of the research and results of the artist residency in Kárstica, Cañada del Hoyo, Cuenca. Awarded by the "Art House Spain" network of centers, Fall 2021. In collaboration with the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica (CCE).
This video was filmed in Cañada del Hoyo. Various local women participated. They embody the continuation of traditions, feminine strength, generosity, and friendship among women.
Production, script, direction, and camera work: Rossella MatamorosParagraph. Haz clic aquí para editar.

THE EMBRACE . Long before the death of the last tree... a forest has already desapeared.

Video performance by Rossella Matamoros on climate change. Work published in the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in the exhibition proposal "Next Season" 2021. (MINAE, DCC, IISD, MADC and OTS). Filmed at La Selva Biological Station, OTS, Costa Rica. 2021.

FOUR VIDEO PERFORMANCES PART OF THE EXHIBITION
HOW DO WE SEE OURSELVES IN THE MIRROR? DO WE DEFEND INSTITUTIONALITY?
National Prize Francisco Amighetti 2020

IN THE SAME BOAT? 2020. The artist interprets the public with an "obligatory reflection", through a series of questions about natural resources, traffic of people, corruption, justice, bulling, Costa Rica versus Costa Rica....what future remais to be built in our country? This perfoamnce also talks about the essential changes in everyday life, the civic rights and civic duties, and the responsibility each of us have in the sustainability of our democracy in Costa Rica.

HOW DID I GET HERE? As part of her research, related to the social damage that Costa Rica is experiencing, Rossella Matamoros performs an intimate, heartbreaking performance that screams from the silence of an uninhabited space. In a group of 5 million people, the deepest sadness becomes specific. The femicides are one of the most serious consequences of patriarchy, chauvinism and misogyny by "the oppressor". He says: If she is not mine, she is not anybody else's!

LIVE / LINE?
On personal confinement, identity, and history! Part of the performances presented at the Museum of Art and Design (MADC) in the exhibition This Way 2020, "Do We See Ourselves in the Mirror? Do We Defend Institutionality?" It took place in the boilers of the former National Liquor Factory, now CENAC, the National Center of Culture in Costa Rica. This performance represents a way for the artist to unite and honor the historic space and the MADC during the Covid-19 pandemic. 2020

Video Performance WHAT DO YOU FEEL? Do we exercise citizenship? Can we exercise it?
Part of the exhibition, This Way at the Museum of Contemporary Art & Design (MADC), CR. 2020.
Today September 15th, on the occasion of our Independence and awating the Bicentennial of our country, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC), presents “What do you feel?” work that questions us as citizens, about our way of acting as a society. The artist directly interprets a diversity of people, democracy or corruption?

HAVE YOU HEARD? HAVE YOU FELT IT? 2019
Video performance HAVE YOU HEARD? HAVE YOU FELT IT?. About teenage mothers at social risk in Costa Rica.
Part of the exhibition teenage mothers at social risk. Rafael Calderon Guardia Museum.
Project declared of "Cultural Interest" for the country by the Ministry of Culture. Costa Rica. 2019

La panza / The Belly. 2019

El rechazo / The rejection. 2019

La salida / The exit. 2019

These three stop motion videos, are part of the installation HAVE YOU HEARD? HAVE YOU FELT IT?. 2019. The Belly , pregnancy and birth of the teenage mother 's child. Rejection, about the rejection of her relatives at home. And The Exit, is about her violent relationship with an older man.

The Border / Immigrants.
Video performance THE BEAST ( After the train in Mexico that carries thousends of immigrants) from south to north. Part of the exhibition: The Border / Immigrants. National Gallery, Children Museum.
San José, Costa Rica. 2018.