f/stop-Residency: Oxiea Villamonte

At the invi­ta­ti­on of the Dutch Consulate and Mondriaan Fund, f/stop awards the pos­si­bi­li­ty of a resi­den­cy in Leipzig on the occa­si­on of the Netherlands‘ guest coun­try appearance at the Leipzig Book Fair 2024.

Artist Oxiea Villamonte from the Netherlands con­ducts rese­arch during her three-month resi­den­cy in Leipzig and deve­lop a work for the festival.

Oxiea Villamonte was born in Chicago in 1995 and grew up in Amsterdam. She recei­ved her degree in pho­to­gra­phy from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Personal archi­ves, roots, bran­ches, exch­an­ge and resi­li­ence are at the cen­ter of Oxiea Villamonte’s artis­tic practice.
Her publi­ka­ti­on »Next of Kin« is an intert­wi­ned sto­ry in which the past and the pre­sent try to con­nect with each other, but also to disconnect.

»My iden­ti­ty is stron­gly influen­ced by my mother and the way she rai­sed me. When I look in the mir­ror, I see my mother loo­king back at me. Although I reco­gni­ze the­se simi­la­ri­ties, I am still afraid of repea­ting simi­lar choices. This jour­ney of fin­ding my own iden­ti­ty has led me to Chicago, the place whe­re I was born. Next of Kin is a tri­bu­te to my matri­ar­chal lineage.«