2-channel video, vanity mirror, pantyhose, video projection
5:17 min

This video installation points to the phenomenology of interiors and intimate space. In this work, images and objects are manipulated and extended through extreme close-ups, multi-channel, and projection, resulting in a space that assesses softness and hardness simultaneously. Two hard plasma screen portray soft textures and patterns that constitute interior space, such as wallpaper, furniture and upholstery, drapes and curtains, and tiles, while a soft object, a round table mirror with pantyhose stretched over it, reveals projected images of utilitarian and sculptural objects that reaffirm an identity and are characterized by their hard surfaces, texture and craft, such as a hair comb, hair pins, and a wooden African fertility sculpture.
These shots, characterized by unfamiliar framing approaches and durational steady-cam movements, reflect my devotion to these spaces and objects, as well as their supernatural qualities. These sacred objects, most of which are used in everyday rituals, speak of a self-created space and a sense of control over one’s environment, which is empowering, yet imbued with melancholia.
The sound of the street blends with non-diegetic underwater sounds, all intermittently enveloped by a saxophone playing Duke Ellington’s “Melancholia” in reverse.  

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video doble canal, espejo de mesa, pantyhose, proyección de video
5:17 min

Esta instalación tiene como enfoque la fenomenología del espacio interior e íntimo. Las dos pantallas de plasma muestran imágenes de texturas suaves y patrones de interiores como empapelado de pared, tapicería y cortinas. Diagonal a las pantallas, un espejo de mesa cubierto con un par de medias pantyhose, muestra imágenes proyectadas de objectos utilitarios y esculturales que reafirman una identidad y que se caracterizan por sus superficies sólidas, sus texturas y cualidades artesanales: una peinilla, horquillas de pelo, y una figura de fertilidad Africana en madera. La mayoría de estos objetos se usan en rituales cotidianos y representan un espacio auto-creado y un sentido de control sobre un ambiente propio, los cuales puede ofrecer un sentido de poder y a su vez estar saturados de melancolía.

El sonido del ambiente y la calle se mezcla con sonidos subacuáticos no diegéticos. Intermitentemente se escucha un saxofón tocando el tema “Melancholia” de Duke Ellington en reversa.

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