la Otra*


La Otra* is an artistic research and film collective that traces figures, gestures, & affects whose influences are muted, silenced, and excluded from "official histories". As a starting point, we look towards peripheries, repressions, negative spaces, and the subconscious as sites of study— taking an interest in the fragmented & ephemeral phenomenons that emerge from within these spaces.

La Otra* is composed of three artists, Laura Alcalde, Sol de Caso, & Laura Cadena, originally from Spain, Chile, & Colombia respectively. Currently based in Barcelona, La Otra*’s practice combines our interdisciplinary backgrounds in video-art, performance, and anthropology. Through this work, we pursue artistic inquiries marked by counter-ethnographic traces— challenging extractive observation by foregrounding reciprocity, intuition, and lived entanglement. In doing so, we are attuned to the moments in which shared reflection takes on a collective life, distributing itself among us in unexpected & surprising ways.







Recognitions
2026  FluxusMuseumPrize - Experimental Video
2026  Casa Amar - 2026 Artist-in-Residence

Current

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FluxusMuseum
Paros, Greece
June-October 2026

Past
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Common Ground
Big Table Athens
A Collective of Collectives Festival
November2025









IN DEVELOPMENT 

Chapter I: Sofia's Story / "In the Palm of the Hand"

Abandoned by her partner after becoming pregnant, Sofía walks through the city grappling with whether to embrace or relinquish the idea of a solitary motherhood. Suspended in time, her quiet passage becomes the emotional center of a film where everyday gestures and iconographies are expressive vessels by which women’s desires and conflicts gain visibility. Sofia’s Story is the first chapter of In the Palm of the Hand, a hybrid film trilogy exploring the things women carry—both seen and unseen.


25 minutes / Shot in Barcelona / Spanish & Catalán / 16mm / Color / 2K Digitalization / Híbrid Film / In Development