SIGI TORINUS FILMS
Saturday, February 15, 2025 6 p.m. Bajo el Sol Gallery The Gri Gri Project, and the St. John Film Society will host a retrospective screening of a series of video art pieces by Virgin Islands multimedia artist Sigi Torinus. Q & A with the filmmaker following the screening $5 suggested donation New media works that include site-specific installation and improvisatory interactive live-video performance will be presented. About the Artist: Sigi Torinus was born and raised in the US Virgin Islands. She pursued studies in Art and Philosophy, earning her MFA from the Braunschweig Art Institute in Germany and San Francisco State University in California. The experience of migration and movement echoes in her art practice as she experiments with light and sound in poetic and playful ways. Taking flight and landing, her work evokes the lyrical tension between soaring and stillness in a layered meditation on the nuanced dance between darkness and illumination. Each creation embodies a sense of flux, shifting between the readily tangible and the subtly elusive. Torinus is a Professor of Integrated Media at the School of Creative Arts / University of Windsor where she co-directs the Noiseborder Multimedia Performance Lab (NMPL). She enjoys working with video, as it appears as liquid light: ethereal and in constant flux. Bajo El Sol Gallery & Art Bar is home to thought-provoking monthly exhibitions, readings by award winning V.I. writers & poets, documentary screenings on some of the Caribbean’s most respected thinkers, as well as talks by local academics and visiting curators. The Gri Gri Project’s mission is to create and support interpretive art exhibitions, artist-centered events, archives, and writing related to the cultural patrimony of the U.S. Virgin Islands and the broader Caribbean region. The screening is supported by the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands and funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, & the Virgin Islands Council on the Arts & the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC.