LETICIA BERDECIA

Leticia Berdecia is an art director and cultural producer based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She acquired a BA in Sociology from the University of Puerto Rico, where she published and collaborated at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Investigations. Her main research interests focus on race, identity, and archival methodologies in the Caribbean, more specifically in the context of power politics. Her interests in such areas led her to the foundation of Archivos del Caribe, an art and history organization that actively collaborates with local communities and artists in the island; creating innovative spaces for critical thinking and breaching the gap between hegemonic narratives. Currently she’s an MA candidate at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona at the Comparative Studies of Art, Literature and Thought program.

This site is a curated project on selected works ︎︎︎
LETICIA BERDECIA

Leticia Berdecia is an art director and cultural producer based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She acquired a BA in Sociology from the University of Puerto Rico, where she published and collaborated at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Investigations. Her main research interests focus on race, identity, and archival methodologies in the Caribbean, more specifically in the context of power politics. Her interests in such areas led her to the foundation of Archivos del Caribe, an art and history organization that actively collaborates with local communities and artists in the island; creating innovative spaces for critical thinking and breaching the gap between hegemonic narratives. Currently she’s an MA candidate at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona at the Comparative Studies of Art, Literature and Thought program.

This site is a curated project on selected works ︎︎︎

In Albis
short film on philosophy

Situated in a symbolical limbo and following Godards script line in Breathless (1960), In Albis dialogues about the existance of the soul in modern society. With a black and white timeless setting, the elements put on camera measure time as a flexible concept encarnated in modernities view of existance. Plato's diologues in Fedón are brought back to introduced a frametime in which the own concept tries to be interpretated as an answer.

presented by Archivos del Caribe
as an INDEPENDENT short film
spring and summer of 2021

Stills from the film In Albis, 2021
📧: leticia@archivosdelcaribe.org