Performance & Photography: When the Ephemeral Becomes an Image explores how performance art — an inherently live and temporary practice — continues to exist through photography. Using examples from her own work, multidisciplinary artist Cristina Savage will discuss how photographs not only document performances but often become the main way they are remembered, shared, and understood. The talk offers insight into the creative relationship between action and image, while providing accessible context on performance art, visual documentation, and contemporary artistic practice, followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion.
Biography Cristina Savage
Cristina Savage is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist, performer, docent, and cultural manager based in Málaga, Spain. Her practice operates across performance, photography, installation, sculpture, textile processes, and video, engaging critically with questions of identity, memory, embodiment, and the socio-spatial dynamics that shape human experience. Raised in Hong Kong within a multicultural environment, she holds a Fine Arts degree from Skidmore College (New York).
Savage has exhibited internationally and collaborated with institutions such as Museo Picasso Málaga, CAC Málaga, and Centre Pompidou Málaga. Her work often investigates the intersection between performativity, materiality, and documentation, with particular attention to how ephemeral artistic practices are mediated, archived, and recontextualized through visual representation. Alongside her artistic research, she develops educational and curatorial initiatives that promote critical engagement with contemporary art and facilitate dialogue between artistic practice, institutional contexts, and diverse communities.
