Marea Roja (2025)

The installation Marea Roja during the SACO 2025 Biennial on Dark Ecosystems consists of a series of six archival photographs by Juanita Guajardo, a 1.5-minute video performance, and two live microalgae cultures in the installation space. +

Developing Micro Temporalities (2025)

Developing Micro Temporalities is an experimental photography project exploring sustainable darkroom practices by integrating microorganisms into the analog photographic process. The core idea is to design a replicable photographic methodology using microalgae as low-impact developing agents on film negatives and light-sensitive papers. +

Esto de Juntar Flores (2025)

Esto de Juntar Flores is a short film that explores the love for flowers and the desire to collect them, tracing the expansion of the Dutch tulip industry into Chile. Shot in the Flowering Desert, in Lisse and Hoorn (the Netherlands), and including footage from the Tulip Day in Chile in 2024, the film investigates how certain Dutch colonial values persist today through neoliberal extractivist practices in Chile. +

Claveles del Aire (Air Carnations) (2021)

The film portrays the return to home and encounter with lost memories, looking at air carnations as a powerful metaphor for growth and resilience in womanhood. Claveles del Aire explores the possibilities of filmmaking to weave different perspectives through the editing process. This intimate portrait weaves together personal and family narratives, revealing layers of identity, memory, and womanhood, much like the intricate and chaotic garden in her mother’s house. +

The Blue Hour (2018)

My mother’s attempted suicide a few years ago was a reminder of her vulnerability and the constant fragility of life. The Blue Hour is that lingering, vague feeling, after the sun is gone but before complete darkness. This project is a reflection of those silent in between moments often overlooked that add beauty to solitude. +