3-channel video projection, single channel video, table, perfume
5:35 min
This work is driven by deterritorialization and how it relates to the disembedding of social and familial relations. I present the house where I was raised in Puerto Rico from three tightly framed perspectives, and the Pacific coast, where I now reside. In the house, I focus on elements of colonial furniture from the Caribbean. I am interested in the import and export of aesthetic commodities as a metaphor for Caribbean countries. I allude to woven cane, an ancient craft popular in tropical countries that is associated with colonial furniture, and Royal Violets, a cuban cologne that was present in my childhood and which has also become a prevalent commodity outside the island. I am including the baby scent and the adult scent, as a way to allude to that lineage and to highlight the impact scent has on memory. The sound is displaced as well, made up of percussive elements that resemble sounds from nature and transition into the sound of the ocean. This work illustrates the displaced traces of the object that is lost; its constituents do not necessarily belong to one another.
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3 proyecciones de video, video monocanal, mesa, perfumero
5:35 min
5:35 min
This work is driven by deterritorialization and how it relates to the disembedding of social and familial relations. I present the house where I was raised in Puerto Rico from three tightly framed perspectives, and the Pacific coast, where I now reside. In the house, I focus on elements of colonial furniture from the Caribbean. I am interested in the import and export of aesthetic commodities as a metaphor for Caribbean countries. I allude to woven cane, an ancient craft popular in tropical countries that is associated with colonial furniture, and Royal Violets, a cuban cologne that was present in my childhood and which has also become a prevalent commodity outside the island. I am including the baby scent and the adult scent, as a way to allude to that lineage and to highlight the impact scent has on memory. The sound is displaced as well, made up of percussive elements that resemble sounds from nature and transition into the sound of the ocean. This work illustrates the displaced traces of the object that is lost; its constituents do not necessarily belong to one another.
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3 proyecciones de video, video monocanal, mesa, perfumero
5:35 min
Esta pieza trata el concepto de desterritorialización y cómo éste hace más vulnerable a nuestros nudos sociales, familiares y a nuestra identidad. En los videos presento la casa donde crecí en Puerto Rico desde varias perspectivas y usando acercamientos extremos, así enfocándome en detalles. En contraste también presento tomas de la costa del Pacífico, donde actualmente resido. En las tomas de la casa me enfoco en detalles de muebles coloniales del Caribe, comodidades estéticas de importe y exporte que reflejan las historias tan complicadas de los países del Caribe. El título de la pieza, Royal Violets, es una referencia directa a la colonia cubana, la cual formó gran parte de mi niñez, y la cual también se convirtió en gran exporte mercantil fuera de la isla.
El sonido también está desplazado en su forma; lo que se percibe como el sonido del mar o sonidos de la naturaleza, son sonidos creados con instrumentos de percusión, incluyendo tambores, semillas y cascarones, mezclados de manera que crean un efecto atmosférico. Esta obra ilustra huellas desplazadas del objeto perdido, y cada elemento no necesariamente le pertenece al otro.
