TERRITORIO
exhibition • workshop • music

21 June - 3 July
by photographer Stephanie Ascanio

TERRITORIO is a photographic and audiovisual exhibition by Colombian artist Stephanie Ascanio exploring memory, displacement, and the emotional landscapes embedded within urban and ancestral territories.

The exhibition brings together two visual series developed between Colombia and the Netherlands. One follows Abuela Blanca Nieves, an Indigenous woman protecting her ancestral land and traditional knowledge on the outskirts of Bogotá, increasingly surrounded by cement and urban expansion. The second moves through the south of Rotterdam, documenting traces of everyday life near the now-disappeared neighborhood of Wielewaal, exploring transformation, migration, and resistance within the city.

Blending documentary photography, audiovisual experimentation, textiles, and manual intervention, TERRITORIO approaches the image as both archive and living memory.

The opening will include a workshop followed by music performances. Both take place on Sunday 21st of June.

HUMAplace / C 3-studios
Huismanstraat 30
Charlois, Rotterdam.

Expo from 21 June to 3 July
Open by appointment on weekdays.

OPENING EVENT: Sunday 21 June

Music from 7 - 11pm
tropical rhythms, cumbia and drones





Workshop from 5 -7pm
Stitching images - embroidery intervention
on Rotterdam South pictures.

Register for the workshop:
johana.cinecol@gmail.com

with performances by:
Dada Phone, Iván El Terrible, YoKolina,
Dark McDoomski and La Pinche Tefi

WORKSHOP - STITCHING IMAGES (5 - 7pm)

As part of the exhibition a workshop will be organized.

Artists Stephanie Ascanio and Johana Molina invite participants to intervene in photographs using needle and thread as an act of collaborative memory-making. All materials will be provided, and the collective creation will become part of the exhibition on show during South Explorer.

Limited spots. Reserve yours via johana.cinecol@gmail.com

LIVE MUSIC (7 - 11pm)

In the evening we have performances by artists from Colombia and Rotterdam.

Iván el Terrible

DJ set experimental global cumbia

Dada Phone

Karaoke tropical en un reactor nuclear

Dada Phone will be presenting his new cassette on this day!

YoKolina

Swamp-synth performance

La Pinche Tefi

DJ set tropical rhythms

Dark McDoomski

Drones from Oud-Charlois

La Pinche Tefi is the DJ alias of Stephanie Ascanio. Expect cumbia, salsa, boogaloo, merengue, and plenty of surprises.

YoKolina aka Johana Molina (Cinema Colombiano) performs in one of her own designs.

Doom and gloom from
the neighborhood.

ABOUT STEPHANIE ASCANIO

Stephanie Ascanio is a Colombian photographer and audiovisual artist whose practice explores the relationships between body, territory, and memory through a human-centered gaze. Through documentary photography, moving image, and sound experimentation, she creates visual narratives where everyday life unfolds into new layers of meaning.

Her work emerges from displacement and the sensitive observation of her surroundings: walking as an artistic methodology, listening to the city, reading its tensions, and approaching the invisible traces that remain within the spaces we inhabit. Between Bogotá, Rotterdam, and other territories shaped by migratory and urban experiences, Stephanie develops a visual investigation into what resists time, transformation, and forgetting.

Her work seeks to activate emotional and sensory connections. Photography expands into other languages such as manual intervention, textiles, and hybrid materialities, allowing dialogues with memory, archives, and collective experience through a tactile and affective dimension.

Her artistic practice is driven by the desire to create through closeness, community, and care. Stephanie understands art as a living space of encounter and resistance: a tool to honor the knowledge systems that sustain life, preserve the memories embedded within territories, and continue imagining sensitive ways of narrating the contemporary world.