2012
I WALK WITH GOD
VIDEO 02'53"
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I WALK WITH GOD
VIDEO 02'53"
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2013 PRESENTE CONTINUO VILLAMANUELA. CENTRO ARTE CONDE DUQUE MADRID, SPA
2013 OFF GALLERY. JUSTMAD MADRID, SPA
2013 143 DELICIAS. PICNIC SESSIONS CA2M MADRID, SPA
2013 LEYENDAS DE COMBATE. DAFO PROJECTES LLEIDA, SPA
2012 BYOB CPH. NIKOLAJ KUNSTHAL COPENHAGEN, DK
I'll lean on him forever
And he'll forsake me never
He will not fail me as long as my faith is strong
What ever road I may walk alone'
A strange portrait about error, understanding this as a combined action of fall and resurgence; the frustration framed through gif animations of youngsters falling or about to fall, rising or about to rise ... rubbing themselves against the ground, glued to the road and even molesting the pavement in a series of desperate moves between home video, Bas Jan Ader and Jackass.
Sequences in loop within a video narrative with a soundtrack of strange epic. And it is that repetition that causes people to act as if by force majeure (act of God); as stunts obliged to act and show themselves sometimes as mechanisms, sometimes as animals ...
2013 OFF GALLERY. JUSTMAD MADRID, SPA
2013 143 DELICIAS. PICNIC SESSIONS CA2M MADRID, SPA
2013 LEYENDAS DE COMBATE. DAFO PROJECTES LLEIDA, SPA
2012 BYOB CPH. NIKOLAJ KUNSTHAL COPENHAGEN, DK
I'll lean on him forever
And he'll forsake me never
He will not fail me as long as my faith is strong
What ever road I may walk alone'
A strange portrait about error, understanding this as a combined action of fall and resurgence; the frustration framed through gif animations of youngsters falling or about to fall, rising or about to rise ... rubbing themselves against the ground, glued to the road and even molesting the pavement in a series of desperate moves between home video, Bas Jan Ader and Jackass.
Sequences in loop within a video narrative with a soundtrack of strange epic. And it is that repetition that causes people to act as if by force majeure (act of God); as stunts obliged to act and show themselves sometimes as mechanisms, sometimes as animals ...
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Un extraño retrato sobre el error, entendiendo éste como una acción combinada de caída y resurgimiento; la frustración enmarcada a través de animaciones gif de jóvenes cayendo o a punto de caer, alzándose o a punto de alzarse… frotándose contra el suelo, pegados a la calzada e incluso abusando del pavimento en una serie de movimientos desesperados entre el home video, Bas Jan Ader y Jackass.
Secuencias repetidas dentro de una narrativa de video con una banda sonora de épica extraña. Y es esa repetición la que provoca ver a personas actuando como por una fuerza mayor; como dobles o stunts forzados a actuar y a mostrarse a veces como mecanismos, a veces como animales ...
Contemporary art knows well about repetitions, how to insist and about resistance. Repetition incides over and over an issue, doing it a second, a third... a umpteenth time, seeing oneself in the position of having the possibility of improving what has been done in a previous action or the attempt to relive an unrepeatable situation. (1) As opposed, compulsive repetition is characterized by a denial of the creativity of the subject, transforming it into a sense of futility and frustration. (2)
Repetition brings with it the problematic of time, of the event that is foreseeable after the first experiences, where in the beginning it emerged as an unpublished expression. (3) Our ability to repeat is intrinsic, inherent, structural; and learning, part of it. However, that repetition is expected to be an advance, a specialization, an improvement over the previous one, an accumulation of skill that in the present project never ends up appearing, a sterile feeling that never runs out.
Here the repetition appears as phatos, a compulsive and neurotic loop, close to parody and self-absorption. Maybe it is only a matter of getting out unharmed.
Repetition brings with it the problematic of time, of the event that is foreseeable after the first experiences, where in the beginning it emerged as an unpublished expression. (3) Our ability to repeat is intrinsic, inherent, structural; and learning, part of it. However, that repetition is expected to be an advance, a specialization, an improvement over the previous one, an accumulation of skill that in the present project never ends up appearing, a sterile feeling that never runs out.
Here the repetition appears as phatos, a compulsive and neurotic loop, close to parody and self-absorption. Maybe it is only a matter of getting out unharmed.
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El arte contemporáneo sabe bien de repeticiones, de insistencias sobre un mismo punto y de resistencia. La repetición consiste en volver a incidir sobre una cuestión, hacerlo una segunda, tercera o enésima vez, verse en la tesitura de tener la posibilidad de mejorar lo realizado en una acción anterior o el intento de revivir una situación irrepetible. (1) Al contrario, la repetición compulsiva se caracteriza por una negación de la creatividad del sujeto, transformándose en una sensación de futilidad y frustración. (2)
La repetición acarrea consigo mismo la problemática del tiempo, del acontecimiento que es previsible después de las primeras experiencias, donde en el principio emergió como expresión inédita. (3) Nuestra capacidad de repetir es intrínseca, inherente, estructural; y el aprendizaje, parte de ella. Sin embargo, se espera de esa repetición un avance, una especialización, una mejora frente al anterior, una acumulacion de destreza que en el proyecto presente no acaba nunca por aparecer, una sensación estéril pero que nunca se agota.
Aquí aparece la repeticion como phatos, como un loop compulsivo y neurótico, cercano a la parodia y al ensimismamiento. Quizá solamente se trate de salir impune de la caída.
(1) Laberinto y repetición Alvaro de Los Angeles
(2) Hyperblanco Vinamaragui
(2) Hyperblanco Vinamaragui
(3) El placer de la repetición Daniel Malpartida
