Drawings

2007

Feu rouge

Exhibition 2007

Borderline, Espace Vallès, Saint-Martin d'Hyères, France

Feu rouge series of 18 embroidered drawings (recto and verso), cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

Feu rouge, carbon paper drawing, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

Feu rouge is a video project which show events determined by the duration of the red light. Video is recorded during a car ride in the city of Córdoba (Argentina) in June 2007. At several crossroads of the streets, children and teenagers make diverse tasks for a small amount of money: cleaning of windscreen, sale of articles (pens, newspapers, etc), jugglery, acrobatics or others.

In the video Feu Rouge, created for Borderline exhibition, the attention is payed to the child and its performance, a headstand during the red light. I imagine the moment when he learnt his skill and his training to reach the wished time. The video shows the movement of the child through a stop motion animation of embroidered drawings. I tried to establish a correspondence between the performance of the child and the realization of drawings, two manners to experiment the concentrated and dilated time.

01/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

02/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

03/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

04/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

05/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

06/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

07/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

08/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

09/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

10/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

11/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

12/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

13/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

14/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

15/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

16/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

17/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

18/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

19/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

20/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

21/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

22/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

23/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

24/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

25/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

26/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

27/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

28/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

29/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

30/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

31/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

32/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

33/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

34/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

35/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, recto, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

36/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge embroidered drawing

Feu rouge, verso, cotton thread on paper, 16 × 23 cm, 2007

37/37Natalia Blanch, Feu Rouge drawing

Feu rougecarbon paper drawing, 16 × 23 cm, 2007