CLAUDIA BERNAL is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and currently a Professor in the Department of Arts, Letters and Languages at UQAC (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi). Her work lies in-between visual art, performative theater, and literature. She holds a doctorate in Art Studies and Practices from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) and in 2023, Bernal completed a postdoctoral degree in research-creation at CELAT-UQAC. Her current research focuses on the relationships between body-territory, identity, and resistance. Graduate in philology and languages ​​from the National University of Colombia (1989), Bernal emigrated to Quebec in 1991 and completed her degree in Visual Arts in 1999 at UQAM. She holds a master's degree in Theater during which she deepened her research on text as an aesthetic material. The concepts of movement, migration, space, displacement, and identity are recurrent, and she has presented group and solo exhibitions in museums, artist-run centers, galleries and public spaces in Canada, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Spain, among others. Claudia Bernal was awarded the prestigious scholarship from the Fonds de Recherche en Science et Culture de Québec (Quebec Fund for Research in Science and Culture) and has received various grants and awards from the Quebec Council of Arts and Letters, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Foundation of the University of Quebec in Montreal. Bernal lives and works between Montreal, Bogotá, and Chicoutimi.