AVANTIA DAMBERG


Caribbean Visual Artist



ANIMATION



Since 2006 I make animations. Animation is my thing. However I now know that I can make animaitons best during an artist-in-residency. Because my body and my computer don't work together well lately, I need to let go a bit of art forms that require the intense use of a computer.





THE BLEEDING





And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, “If I just touch his tzitzit, I will be healed.” On the song 'The Rip' from Portishead, album Third.



LUPITA





An animation about rejection and bouncing back.




THE AFTERLIFE (PART I)





For an exhibition in Amsterdam called 'Inspired' or in Dutch 'Bezield' a special animation was made about the thoughts and hopes Christian believers have about the theme after death. These friends of the artist live in each continent of the world. They took a picture of their favorite space where they pray and also recorded their voice with their mobile phone or laptop.





Double six





An animation inspired by the book 'Dubbelspel'(Double Play) by Frank Martinus Arion ✝. There is an documentary made about the author and this animation was an assignment by the documentary maker Cindy Kerseborn. The book has been filmed in 2015/2016.



Nigra videri





Nigra Videri is an animation about enjoying to be invisible. Enjoying to disappear in the grey Dutch urban society and architecture. You can be there, but no one sees you. Until you want to, then you let your colors be seen and your sound be heard. At your own time.

Made with Aïlsa Anastatia in 2011 during AIR Bijlmer



VIDEO ART



At the art academy I did the video and audio visual department and expressing through video art is one of my ways to profile myself as an artist on this island and to the rest of the world.



1 zone





This movie is another scene of finding the silent places in a busy crowded city.
I discover sometimes automatically, sometimes by accident, the most hidden silent places, right next to the condense busy places in a city. Here I am next to the driver of the metro wagon. In his driving cabin, it's totally quiet. You don't hear the passengers, who run to catch the metro and might be talking, chatting on the phone, or listening to their music in one of the wagons you drive around. You just co-exists. The scenery, underneath, is beautiful. This underground has only 5 stops underground and comes above the ground at the Amstelstation, this movie is exactly 1 zone long.



danki





An homage to my survival ancestors. Danki means Thank You. Thank You with my entire body for my ancestors who came overseas and survived their tribulations as I exist today. "Danki i ku brasa" meaning Thank you and with arms, since I made the thanks with my arms. But brasa also means hug: Thank you with a hug.


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door portraits





Portraits of faces painted with video: as the door opens the sunlight casts light on the green door reflecting back on the face, giving it a sereen glow. This in combination with the look of 'Oops I'm disturbing' when opening the door of the principal's office, noticing that he has…



Early morning, airplane





One of the 5 Bijlmer Skies paintings explained, made during the Bijlmer artist-in-residency in 2011.



AVANTIA DAMBERG


Based in Curacao
Dutch Caribbean


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