• River definitions
  • Background
    • The bay, how to perform a nuclear action
    • The girl who looked at the other side
  • Projects
    • Those we call foreigners
    • The opportunity that appears after tiredness…
  • Writings on the river
  • Who am I
  • Contact

ALL I HAVE IS

Rivers open valleys, erode, run by gravity. Rivers flow continuously. Rivers flow… So what are the rivers?


  • Archive creation, research and compilation process initiated in 2017.

  • ©Alessandra Santiesteban 2023

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THE GIRL WHO LOOKED AT THE OTHER SIDE (Madrid, 2019)

This artwork arises from the link between Havana, the Nuclear City and Madrid with the sea. It’s an invitation to think of the «impossible» as a place for action and change. It begins with 39 footnotes written between the Nuclear City and Havana in 2018 and included in the book «La Bahía» (Ediciones Sinsentido). The exercise consisted of writing the 39 poems that accompanied those footnotes during the same days in which they had been conceived, but a year later in Europe. All this, together with photographs, archive images, historical documents, as well as a visual exploration that addresses the relationship between Madrid and the sea… make up a piece crossed by another temporality, another country, another love, other «bays», other «nuclear actions» like building an amusement park on the ruins of a nuclear power plant… +info HERE.

  • Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, 2019

    Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, 2019

  • Performance

    Performance

  • Installation

    Installation

  • Performative writing

    Performative writing

  • Personal documents

    Personal documents

  • Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, 2019

    Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, 2019

  • Performance

    Performance

  • Historical documents

    Historical documents

  • Performative writing

    Performative writing

  • An amusement park in the ruins of a nuclear power plant

    An amusement park in the ruins of a nuclear power plant

  • The girl who looked at the other side

    The girl who looked at the other side

  • Performance

    Performance

  • An amusement park in the ruins of a nuclear power plant

    An amusement park in the ruins of a nuclear power plant

  • Other nuclear actions

    Other nuclear actions