Marianne Hoffmeister Castro, the 2022-2023 St. Elmo Fellow will discuss her artistic practice centered on multispecies imaginaries and take us through the work she has been developing in collaboration with the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center.
Marianne Hoffmeister Castro (b. 1989) is a Chilean artist currently based in the United States. Her work examines the representation of nature and animality in contemporary western world. Working with drawing, installation, video, experimental writing and research-based processes, she proposes non-anthropocentric storytelling strategies to reimagine new modes of relation and iconographies of empathy with nonhuman domains in times of existential and ecological crisis. She holds a BFA from Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile (2014) and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States (2022). Marianne has exhibited and screened work in Chile, United States, Ecuador, Peru, Switzerland, Korea, and have participated in diverse international residency programs such as Cow House Studios, Ireland (2017); Northwestern Oklahoma State University, United States / Molten Capital, Chile, (2018); Bibliothek Andreas Züst, Switzerland (2018); Pimoa Cthulhu, First Tentacular Writing Residency at the Institute of Postnatural Studies, Madrid (2020) and Mother's Milk in Kansas, United States (2021). Currently she is the artist in residence at Núcleo de Lenguaje y Creación at Universidad de las Américas, Chile (2022 - 2023) and the St. Elmo Fellow at UT Austin and Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (2022 - 2023).