CI.CA.TRIZ [Open Studio]

CI.CA.TRIZ is a studio project for an installation and audiovisual research that explores reconnection with the body, memory, and Afro-descendant identity. Starting from the question of what shape invisible scars take, Brianda Carreras investigates trauma, heritage, pain, and care. The artist focuses on Dominican "Afrotainidad"—an often invisibilized identity—and on anger as a generative force.Through cultural symbols such as Atabey and Las Muñecas sin Rostro (Faceless Dolls), the work explores the theme of salt as an ambivalent element: a source of both purification and suffering. Salt becomes a symbol of forced migrations, Afro-descendant history, and collective memory. In this initial phase, the installation unfolds as an interweaving of images, props, sounds, and words, inviting reflection on scars not only as marks of healing, but also as political and narrative spaces. CI.CA.TRIZ is an act of care that oscillates between wound and healing, and between personal memory and collective history.

CONCEPT & DIRECTION
Brianda Carreras

PERFORMANCE
Brianda Carreras 

LIVE SOUND DESIGN
Damiano Tata

Brianda Carreras is a multidisciplinary artist based in Rome. In her artistic practice, she explores the Dominican Afro-Taino culture, using the Black body as a filter, trace, sign,  archive, and a legacy. Her works celebrates the Afro-Taíno cultural roots of the Dominican Republic. Carreras holds degrees in Contemporary Dance and Audiovisual Communication, and a Master's degree in Dramaturgy and Screenwriting from the Silvio d'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 2024, she is one of the inaugural artists in residence at SPAZIO GRIOT, a program inspired by the Second Congress of Black Writers and Artists.