About Karina Abramova
Las Palmas Doradas is a purpose-driven digital eco-art activism project by Karina Abramova, where every artwork is a vehicle of ecological awareness and environmental action. It is the result of her visceral emotional response to encounters with natural degradation. Las Palmas Doradas blends natural objects, climate literacy, disruptive technologies, community engagement, and environmental regeneration.
Karina Abramova (b. 1986) enjoys communicating the future, and she has done that professionally as a world class future trends consultant and an artist bringing the future vision to the present. She has a track record of bringing creative groups together through immersive experiences, community gatherings and managing other artists. She has a Bachelor of Commerce from the Toronto Metropolitan University, and is a candidate of Master of Arts at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London. She works between the UK and Mexico. Her work was exhibited in Amsterdam and London.
About Bob Bicknell-Knight
Bob Bicknell-Knight is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and writer, working primarily in painting, sculpture, video, installation and digital media. His work is influenced by surveillance capitalism and responds to the hyper consumerism of the internet, exploring ideas surrounding the automation of work, global power structures and technocratic authoritarianism, as well as critically examining contemporary technologies.
About Afroscope
Nana Opoku aka Afroscope (b. 1991, Ghana) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who experiments across the full scope of digital and analog media. His process is quite spontaneous and intuitive, resulting in imagery that is often surreal, otherworldly and afrofuturist.
Afroscope’s works have been showcased across the world, including exhibitions such as the prestigious Venice Biennale (April 2022), where he represented his country, at Art Dubai (March 2022), at Museum Ostwall in Dortmund (December 2021), at the Digital Art Fair Asia, Hong Kong (October 2021), and in several other expositions. Through his practice, he has also had the unique opportunity to collaborate with notable organizations and individuals such as Adobe Inc., Chance the Rapper, MTV Base, and several other prominent creative entities. He views his work and the world he creates as extensions of his fascination with oneness, meditation and play, and he revels in the mystical quality of his art-making process.
About Cecilia Bengolea
Cecilia Bengolea (Buenos Aires, 1979), works on a range of media including performance, video and sculpture. Using dance as a tool and a medium for radical empathy and emotional exchange. Infused with the symbolic energies found within nature and relationships, her compositions are formed around ideas of the body - both individually and collectively - as a medium. Bengolea develops a broad artistry where she sees movement, dance and performance as animated sculpture.
Bengolea has collaborated with dancehall artists such as Craig Black Eagle, Bombom DHQ, Damion BG, and with artists Dominique Gonzalez Forster and Jeremy Deller. Her collaborative work with French choreographer François Chaignaud, Pâquerette (2005-2008) and Sylphides (2009), have earned several awards such as the Award de la Critique de Paris in 2010 and the Young Artist Prize at the Gwangju Biennial in 2014. They have also co-created dance pieces for their dance company as well as for the Ballet de Lyon (2013), the Ballet de Lorraine (2014) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal.