Ana Victoria aka Vica Pacheco was born in Oaxaca, southern Mexico in 1993, she lives and works in Brussels. She studied Art at La Esmeralda in México City before graduating from Villa Arson in France in 2017. Her practice is rooted in experimental music and composition, but she also has a practice in ceramics and 3d animation. Her work is above all eclectic and energetic, inspired by mythological crossbreeding, prehispanic technologies and syncretism, she likes to arrange the most heterogeneous or hazardous elements between them, to produce sound performances and installations.

Vica Pacheco seeks to create a dialogue between animism, ritual and technology in her series of works Animacy. Revolving around the whistling vessel, a hydraulic sound instrument that existed in pre Columbian times throughout Mesoamerica, the series presents a symbiosis between two types of technology: one contemporary, electronic and digital; the other pre-Columbian, made of mud, fire, air and water.

The residency program of iii is supported financially by the Creative Industries Fund NL and the Creative Europe program of the European Union. The residency of Vica Pacheco at iii is organised in collaboration with Rewire, Overtoon, STUK and iMal.