Ailen María Bahna

Ailen Bahna was born in Buenos Aires and grew up in a small province in the north of the country. She is a writer, actress, and dancer. She studied acting and writing at the National University of the Arts and is currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in Writing with a novel. She is also a certified flexibility instructor.
She writes poetry and plays, coordinates series, and works in production and cultural management for an independent space. Her artistic practice is nourished by the intersection of writing, performance, movement, and music; she occasionally works as a DJ at parties, as another way to invite people to dance.
For some time now, she has been developing a work that articulates writing, body, and space: a non-solemn piece, anchored in simplicity and sensitivity, where poetry engages in a back-and-forth dialogue with the body and its possibilities. Her work explores feminisms, the question of femininity, the role of women, and the violence perpetrated against bodies. Her work is characterized by a curious and committed practice; it is passionate and impulsive, and she conceives of artistic creation as a space for encounter, experimentation, and political expression. She understands the collective as both a necessity and a force, and she champions tenderness as a way of inhabiting the world and the artistic act.
She is interested in the small, the personal, the unique, and the particular. Poetry is like a body, like a house one can inhabit to find a treasure.