Videos
2008
En tránsito
En tránsito (In transit), digital video 4'40'', Brussels, 2008
“... in any city we will recognize our true homeland, which can only be found in a place where one is passing through, because our primary condition in this world is to be passing through... ”
Lluis Satorras, on the book Café Arcadia
by José Luis Garcia Martin, Babelia, El País, 5 July 2003
The urban context is in contemporary art the framework within which nomadism is expressed, the work of art understood as an act that can only have been accomplished by someone who has passed through there, who at a given moment has been there temporarily and ephemerally. The filmed image would be archives, memories of situations.
In my work, the idea of ​​displacement is both a physical phenomenon as well as a mental, psychological, and spiritual process. The two axes of En tránsito (In transit) are the visual recognition of decisive moments/places of my displacements — Córdoba, Argentina; College Park, Baltimore, USA; Havana, Cuba; Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Prague, Czech Republic; Marnay-sur-Seine; Les Ulis, Grenoble, France; Brussels, Belgium — and the exploration of languages as a mental displacement through a narrative in Spanish, English and French.
→ PDF Entrevista de Casa 13 a Natalia Blanch, Grenoble, Francia, julio de 2008
