ABOUT
Geraldine Barón is an artist and casting director, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina currently living in New York City.
For over a decade, Geraldine has worked in film casting, specializing in finding people who have never acted before but who share an authentic connection to the world of the story. Geraldine’s casting style has become integral to contemporary independent cinema, with films from the Safdie Brothers’ Good Time to Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always singled out for the raw authenticity of their worlds, populated with intoxicatingly charismatic, compelling characters who bring a shock of reality into the world of artifice. Other films she has cast include Pedro Almodovar’s The Room Next Door, Savannah Leaf’s Earth Mama which also earned her a BIFA nomination for her casting work, Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow and HBO’s TV series Euphoria, amongst others.
Her artistic practice focuses primarily on analog photography and writing, though she also incorporates video, performance and archive, and it’s centered in the world of family as a field of investigation. Her casting work exists in active and pulsating conversation with her art practice and is moved by the same sensibility. Like casting, Geraldine’s work feels like detective work: following leads, scrutinizing subjects, and piecing together narratives as she investigates the family unit amidst reverberations of grief, absence, mystery, and love. Inspired by her work in narrative and documentary film, her work mixes fictional elements with autobiography to piece together fragments of scavenged truth into meaning. It is through making work that she begins to understand her own experiences of family and can start to imagine new ones. Her photographs and their accompanying texts are pieces of map leading to novel formations of intimacy, touch, together and apartness, tracing new possibilities of what it means to be family. She’s currently working on a book project drawing from this universe titled Ensayo para una Familia and a reading series.
Geraldine holds a BA from the University of Los Angeles, California and an MFA from Columbia University. She participated in prestigious art residencies in Buenos Aires, including Laboratorio de Cine at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and the artist program at Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas, and studied photography with Alessandra Sanguinetti. Her work has been exhibited in Buenos Aires and New York.
