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Prompted by interwoven structural and personal stresses, artist-filmmakers Henry Bradley, Solveig Qu Suess, and Blanca Pujals started having monthly meetings in January 2022 to share and collectively reflect on their practices. These regular exchanges provided a support structure, nurturing their individual practices and enabling change and mutual influence. In a recent screening and artist talk at the Critical Media Lab in Basel, they decided to intertwine their projects, tracing thematic threads across techno-scientific optics, intergenerational trauma, memory, and modeled futures, rather than displaying individual works. For Rehearsing Retreat, the artist-filmmakers reflect on the method they developed together and how it informs the design and conceptualization of film screenings and presentations.

Blanca Pujals

Blanca Pujals is an architect, spatial researcher and critical writer. Her cross-disciplinary practice uses spatial research and critical analysis to engage with questions around geographies of power on bodies and territories, and geopolitical configurations of contemporary techno-scientific infrastructures. Her work encompasses film, architecture, lecturing, curatorial projects, teaching and critical writing.

Graduated in Architecture at the Barcelona School of Architecture, she completed her studies with a MA in Critical Theory and Museum Studies at the Independent Studies Program of MACBA Museum, tutored by the philosopher Paul B.Preciado, and a postgraduate degree from the Centre for Research Architecture (Visual Cultures Department) at Goldsmiths University of London, directed by Susan Schuppli and Eyal Weizman. She is currently developing her practice-led PhD in Art&Science, about the geopolitics and spatial articulations of Particle Physics' Sensing Infrastructures, looking at fundamental physics laboratories such as CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) and how they amplify material and political interactions.