Installations
2007
Borderline
Exhibition in resonance with the
Biennale de Lyon d'Art contemporain
Espace Vallès, Saint-Martin d'Hyères, France
Feu rouge and Electro project: drawings, videos
Feu rouge and Electro are projects which show events determined by the duration of the red light. Videos were recorded during a car ride in the city of Córdoba (Argentina) in November 2002 and 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.
The images of paintings complete the scene where the action takes place. —
