Andrés Boero Madrid is a filmmaker and visual artist, graduated as a Director of Photography from the International School of Film and TV in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He has showcased his films, installations, photographs, and photobooks in countries across America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
He was selected by the Regional Funds for Culture with Brazo de Monte (2013), HUM (2015), Deconstruction (2017), Notes for a Common Landscape (2019), Poetics of Fire (2021). His short film «Maleza» received a Special Mention from the Jury at the 41st International Film Festival of Uruguay, and his short film «The smell of that place» won the 30th Film Festival of Uruguay (2012).
For the past ten years, he has coordinated the artist residency project Residencia Vatelón in the historic town of Villa Soriano, Uruguay.
Since 2014, he has been teaching at the VATELÓN Artistic Experimentation Laboratory. He has taught at Tea Imagen (Argentina), Uruguay Campus Film, Uruguay Film School, the International School of Film and TV in San Antonio de los Baños, (Cuba), etc.
Statement: I use the landscape as a starting point and source of inspiration for my work, where I delve into the transitory nature of human beings, observing the transformations of culture and nature in the place I inhabit: the mouth of a river.
From moving through the territory, the contact with the material emerges: the mud, the wood, and their mutation through the elements water, air, and fire. My mother tongue is photography, and it is from there that I explore and experiment with languages such as video, installation, and painting.
Ancestry and geography are deeply rooted in my work, appearing as traces of the past in photographic archives, found objects, and oral memory.