Paola Fiterre Performance: "A Quiet Thread Between What Cannot Stand Alone"

“This performance explores the fragile and necessary bonds between people. I invite strangers to balance a stick with me, pressing it lightly between our bodies. The only way to keep it from falling is to remain attentive to one another, communicating through breath, intuition, and movement rather than words. Each subtle shift from one side demands a response from the other, creating a silent dialogue of adjustment, reaction, and trust. The work transforms into a collaboration with no predetermined outcome, where balance depends entirely on mutual presence and the willingness to respond to otherness.” - @paola_fiterre

Paola Fiterre explores expanded photographic and performative practices focused on the representation of the female subject traversed by the experience of migration, the self-acceptance of her body, and its communication with nature and society. She studied at the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana until 2017 and graduated from the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York in 2019, having been awarded both the ICP Director’s Fellowship and the ICP New Media Fellowship. Fiterre was recently awarded the Cintas Foundation Sondra Gilman Gonzalez-Falla Fellowship in Photography 2023-2024 and previously received The Reed Foundation Fellowship for Cuban artists to attend a residency at The Vermont Studio Center (2022); the En Foco Photography Fellowship (2022); and the ICP x Tory Burch Artists Fellowship (2021). Her works are part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She lives and works in New York.