Stephanie Comilang

Artist and filmmaker Stephanie Comilang examines how capital, labor, and movement occurs on a global scale and how it is influenced by cultural and social factors. Working in a documentary mode, her videos, films, and installations address international concerns while remaining rooted in the particulars of a society. Her recent exhibition at Julia Stoschek Foundation, Piña, Why is the Sky Blue?, centers on a video/virtual reality installation she created with Simon Speiser that was shot in the Philippines and Ecuador, where the two artists have respective family histories. Featuring interviews with healers, activists, and shamans—along with a monology by a fictious AI spirit medium called Piña—the work brings attention to precolonial traditions and emphasizes matriarchal cultures.