Tiny Event, of the series Tiny Events, 2005.
About the series
The portrait is the tool to show the singularity, isolation, or rather, the incommunicability of the individual, but fundamentally, to show the individual in their condition as such. That condition, common to all, is the only available means to establish a link.
A person is presented in their present, in a single action that extends indefinitely in time. In this action and its uncertain potentiality, the story concludes. The confrontation of these two temporal series reveals the fissure between these beings and a possible context; it is not a circumstance, but a condition.
This gap, or off-centered gaze, is the syntax of the discourse, the necessary component to express the condition of the being. Everything is counterpoint between these physiognomies glued to a background devoid of spatial references and the passage of a walker who, looking down, briefly registers the remnants of an alien tumult. On one side, a landscape that harbors nothing but the useless, the scene of the trivial, a surface that does not reach the status of "place"; on the other, the forceful presence of a face, of a subject, and their individuality as the only possible place.
A change of attitude is not necessarily read in the signals or gestures of the body, at least not in an evident way. The intensity of the gesture contradicts grandiloquence. Moreover, in this case, looking up and seeing is not a guarantee of anything; it is an internal event. There is no certainty; it only opens up a possibility. As Kierkegaard would say, here "truth is subjectivity," and subjectivity is confined within the limits of a body.
Tiny Event. Video Stills.
Works
Red Dreams I
Intervened Photography | Inkjet and gouache print on Magnani paper. 50 x 50 cm. 2008
Black Dreams I
Intervened Photography | Inkjet and gouache print on Magnani paper. 50 x 50 cm. 2008
Dark Dreams
Intervened Photography | Inkjet and gouache print on Magnani paper. 50 x 50 cm. 2008
Light Dreams
Intervened Photography | Inkjet and gouache print on Magnani paper. 50 x 50 cm. 2008
Balloons and Streamers
Intervened Photography | Inkjet printing of ink, graphite and acrylic on Magnani paper. 45 x 200 cm. 2006
Ceibo Flower II
Intervened Photography | Inkjet printing of ink, graphite and acrylic on Magnani paper. 45 x 200 cm. 2006
Holes II
Intervened Photography | Inkjet printing of ink, graphite and acrylic on Magnani paper. 45 x 150 cm. 2007
Black Plane
Intervened Photography | Inkjet printing, graphite and acrylic on Magnani paper. 50 x 200 cm. 2006
Tiny Events
Intervened Photography | Inkjet printing of ink, graphite and acrylic on Magnani paper. 45 x 200 cm. 2008
Many
Intervened Photography | Inkjet printing of ink, graphite and acrylic on Magnani paper. 49 x 147 cm. 2008
Broken Skyline
Video installation | One or two channels. DV Video. Stereo sound. Variable dimensions. 3′ 30′′ loop. 2006
Tiny Event
Video installation | Five channels. DV video. Stereo sound. Variable dimensions. 3′ 39′′ in loop. 2006
Exhibitions
Focus – Photography. Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts. Miami, Estados Unidos, 2021
Digital Media. La Nau, sede de la Universidad de Valencia. Curatorship: Cristina Ghetti y Andrea Racciatti. Valencia, España, 2008
Imágenes multimedia de un mundo complejo. Visiones desde ambos lados del Atlántico. Sala de Santa Inés, Sevilla; Hospital Real, Granada, España; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires; Departamento de Artes Visuales Prilidiano Pueyrredón de la UNA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Centro Multimedia del Centro Nacional de las Artes, Ciudad de México, Centro Cultural Estación Indianilla, Ciudad de México, Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Ciudad de México, México; Alliance Française, La Habana; Fundación Ludwing, La Habana, Cuba. Curatorship: Jesús Rubio Lapaz y Julio Flores. Sevilla y Granada, España. D.F., México. Buenos Aires, Argentina. La Habana, Cuba. 2008
Tiny Events. Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts. Miami, Estados Unidos, 2007
Adaptacions Urbanes III. MX Espai 1010. Curatorship: Micaela Patania. Barcelona, España, 2007
Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales. Palais de Glace. Buenos Aires, 2007
Rivas + Trilnick. Una extensión posible. Galería RO. Curatorship: Alina Tolosa. Buenos Aires, 2006
Denegri-Golder-Rivas. Videoinstalaciones. Espacio Fundación Telefónica. Curatorship: Laura Buccellato. Buenos Aires, 2005
Credits
- Performers: Young people from Fundación Crear Vale la Pena, Centro Puertas al Arte.
