Nita Vera

Life intersects in random, chance and discontinuous ways without apparent reasons. It appears as a chain of coincidences; as small fragments put together. It is reality; a construction. We construct our own truths, memories and experiences from stories that have once been told. Over time, these stories change and get new interpretations.

The starting point of Unfinished Script (2018) was a collection of autofictional stories that I worked through, creating a dialogue with five psychotherapists, experts of the mind, and four theatre-makers, experts of human physicality. During the dialogues with the psychotherapists, we created a simulation of a therapy session: me sitting in a chair in their office, with them analysing my stories. With the interpretation of the theatre-makers, we constructed a basis for a theatre play. 

Combining both perspectives, the project reconstructs psychological scenarios.
Approaching the project as autofiction defines the way in which we read the narrative: it becomes the truth for the spectator. In fiction, the mother of all frames is a love scene, which I use in the project by depicting ways of human bonding. Unfinished Script explores the boundaries of photography, dialogue, cinematography, text and installation. Dealing with the themes of experience, memory and intimacy, I am constructing a performance between reality and fiction. 

Nita Vera (Finland, 1986) is a visual artist of Chilean and Finnish descent, graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and currently finishing her master studies at the Aalto University. Her subject matters deals with questions around the human condition and relationships. She approaches photography from an auto fictive perspective, exploring the relationship between fiction and reality. Her work has been presented at exhibitions in the Finnish Museum of Photography, Encontros da Imagem Festival (Braga), Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen), Kunshalle (Helsinki), Kalmar Konstmuseum and Estonian Photographic Art Fair, among others.

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