Malena Szlam

Malena Szlam is a Chilean artist and filmmaker based in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal. Her films, installations, and photographs explore embodied perception and the material and affective dimensions of analogue film process. Szlam’s work gives form to lyrical approximations of the natural world. Attentive to the geopolitics of natural phenomena, her recent work focuses on geology, earth science, and volcanology. 

Szlam’s work has been exhibited widely at festivals and museums, including Toronto International Film Festival, MoMA, NewDirectors/New Films, Media City Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, FIC Valdivia, Jeonju IFF, Cinéma du Réel, Edinburgh International Festival, and International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Recent group exhibitions include Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific, PST ART: Art & Science Collide (Los Angeles), femmes volcans forêts torrents, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Expanded Plus: Utopian Phantom, Factory of Contemporary Arts Palbok (SouthKorea); The Moon: From Inner Worlds toOuter Space, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark). Solo presentations include Inexistent Time presented byLos Angeles Filmforum and Infra— at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art.  

Szlam’s work is included in the MoMA’s permanent collection.