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laury fong gonzalez (they/them) is a moving image and performance artist from Cuba based between Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Born in Cuba to a mixed family of Chinese and Spanish heritage, they were raised in Madrid as a political refugee.

From a young age they have moved through a multitude of ways of being within the Caribbean diaspora, hence their practice comes as a means to speak to and through the diasporic body. They are interested in navigating imperial contexts, unlearning structures of capital, information and power perpetuated in new media technologies. Through the mediums of installation, performance and video, they explore diasporic memories and stories of migration, telling how they are experienced and performed on and off screen.

They have worked as guest artist at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, where they founded the first Latin American and Caribbean Union, and worked as organizer and curator of initiatives like the Rietveld Pavilion and Recipes For a Technological Undoing, among others. They are the founder of paladar space, an emerging experimental arts space in Los Angeles. Currently they are kindly supported by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.                                                                                                                  

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