Denisse Griselda Reyes (PS MA Candidate)
Performance Studies MA Candidate Denisse Griselda Reyes will screen their film as a part of the Bodega Film Festival this Friday, October 3rd. In this genre-fluid fantasy, Griselda reenacts the director’s eccentric dates with hired actors while giving a magazine interview, but as the performances grow repetitive and surreal, the normally guarded iconoclast begins to unravel, haunted by their deepest, darkest secret.
More about the screening can be found below:
Friday, October 3rd, 2025
Hunter Art Galleries: 205 Hudson St Gallery
205 Hudson St
New York, NY 10013
Doors Open: 6:30pm
Screenings: 7:00 pm
Artist Bio: Straddling the lines of assimilation, refuge, and self-preservation, Denisse Griselda Reyes’ (they/them) current work interrogates the boundaries of representation by publicly engaging with memory. They are an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker utilizing autobiographical narratives as source material to create contemporary fictions. Their work constructs a personal aesthetic of recuperation and salvage through re-creations in paintings, films, sculptures, and performances. Exploring layered temporalities and representations of the self within archives, they re-enact stories as they are remembered and ground them in the social structures and historical context surrounding the archive, whether the Salvadoran Civil War or the awkwardness of a first date. In this balance between tragedy and pleasure, they employ humor and their alter-ego, Griselda, to navigate the grief and absurdity of repeatedly re-creating transhistorical subjects. Their work seeks to negotiate an agreement with the present moment rather than with a distant future, exploring how close one can get to reality before losing touch with it.
Reyes’s work has been exhibited and screened at institutions such as the Museo Reina Sofía, The Jewish Museum, White Columns, A.I.R. Gallery, Real Art Ways, Bodega Film Festival, MECA Art Fair, and Centro Cultural de España en El Salvador. Reyes holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Wesleyan University, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.