Claudia Joskowicz (b. 1968, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia) will use the Grant to produce Eje salino, a three-channel video installation that offers a critical exploration of the Bolivian landscape. Focusing on Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt flats, the work contrasts the abstract and poetic beauty of the region with the harsh reality of lithium mining and its economic and ecological implications. The project aims to reveal the complex aesthetic, political and cultural layers that shape this emblematic space.

Claudia Joskowicz works primarily with video, installation, and photography. Her practice focuses on history and its narrative, considering the role that media plays in its construction. For most of her career, she has focused on the Latin American landscape, producing works in Bolivia, her native country, and throughout South America. Joskowicz has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum; the Kadist Foundation, the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, and the Central Bank of the Republic of Bogotá. She has received numerous awards and grants, including: Guggenheim Grant, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, NYFA Grant y Fulbright Grant. She has also been a fellow at Fundación Camargo (France), Yaddo Corporation (New York), Fountainhead Arts (Miami), Latin American Roaming Art Project (Mexico), Sacatar Institute (Brazil), and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York). Joskowicz is a professor of fine arts at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, United States.