Laura Huertas Millan about Black Sun
Saturday 19 Sep 2026 from 5pm to 6:30pm
Free on booking
Film in Spanish, with French and English subtitles.
The artist and filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán presents her film Black Sun (2016), followed by a discussion with the audience and curator Madeleine Planeix-Crocker.
Through a sensitive portrait of Antonia, an opera singer plagued by melancholy and depression, Black Sun explores with great delicacy the links between the body, the voice, artistic creation and psychological states. Through breath, song, silences and fragments of intimate narratives, the film creates an atmosphere that is both unsettling and deeply moving.
Through discreet and elliptical direction, Laura Huertas Millán crafts a narrative in which the intimate becomes the setting for a broader reflection on memory, vulnerability and the forms of resistance found in living beings.
The screening is followed by a discussion with the artist about her film work, her visual research and the themes running through her works.
She holds MFAs from the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Fresnoy, and a practise-based PhD from PSL University (SACRe program — ENS rue d’Ulm and Beaux-Arts de Paris).
She is a former fellow of the Sensory Ethnography Lab and the Film Study Center (Harvard University) where she developed her PhD research on «ethnographic fictions».
Recent individual exhibitions of her work include After Nature Prize at C/O (Berlin, Germany) and the Crespo Foundation (Frankfurt, Germany), as well as solo shows at Western Front (Vancouver, Canada), MASP (Sao Paulo, Brazil), MAMM (Medellin, Colombia), and Maison des Arts (Malakoff, France), and Villa Arson (Nice, France).
Her films and installations were included in group exhibitions such as Woven Histories at MOMA (NY, USA), LACMA (Los Angeles, USA), National Gallery of Arts (Washington D.C., USA) and National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada); Ires y Venires and Sembrar la Duda at Banco de la Republica (Bogota, Colombia); La Buena Vida, MAMM (Medellin, Colombia); Esta Historia no es la Historia, Espacio Odeon (Bogota, Colombia); Le Printemps de Toulouse (Toulouse, France); Reclaiming Places, La Loge (Brussels, Belgium); Working from the Future Past, SEMA (Seoul, Korea); Paroxysm of Sublime, LACE (Los Angeles, USA), and PinchuckArtCenter’s Future Generation Prize (Venise, Italy).
She was part of the Liverpool Biennial, the FRONT Triennial, the Sharjah Biennial, MOMENTA biennial, Videonnale biennial, Videobrasil biennial, BienalSUR, and Seoul Mediacity Biennial. Her work is part of public and private collections, such as KADIST (France and USA), CIFO (USA), CNAP (France), FRAC Lorraine (France), Hauts-de-Seine collection (France), Seine- Saint-Denis collection (France), and Sharjah Art Foundation (UEA).
Huertas Millán's films were part of the official selections of film festivals such as the Berlinale, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Viennale, Punto de Vista, and Cinéma du Réel , among others. She was awarded the Pardo di Domani Best Direction Prize at Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland), the Grand Prix at Fronteira Film Festival (Brazil) and MIDBO (Colombia), and Grand Prix mentions at FIDMarseille (France) and Doclisboa (Portugal). Several retrospectives and focuses of her work have been shown in cinematheques such as those of Harvard University, Film Archive (USA), Vienna Film Museum (Austria), Tabakalera (Spain); in film festivals such as Mar del Plata (argentina), FICUNAM (Mexico), and RIDM (Canada); and art centers such as CA2M (Spain), Musée des Abattoirs (France), and ICA London (UK).
In 2024, Huertas Millán was awarded the Ulrike Crespo After Nature Award, recognizing international artists working with image-based media in response to ecological change and evolving concepts of nature and art. She was also the recipient of the AWARE Nouveau Regard Prize, one of France’s most prestigious honors for mid-career artists.