videoinstallation, sound Installation, videomapping, soundpostcards, photo exhibition
KULTURNI CENTAR BEOGRADA (SERBIA)
This work is one of many in a series of projects that I have been carrying out with the aim of embracing a limited bulk of elements of metaphysical poetry - water, air, unity and movement - symbols that invite us to think, to feel and to experience the origin, the birth, that which is beyond everything physical and spiritual.
This is a work of reminescence that conjures up the ancient Greek word “physis”, used to refer to anything that today we associate with “Nature”. Physis is “birth”, “origin”, the primal deity of Nature and one of the first beings to come into existence at the dawn of time.
This work is intended as a portal into a mysterious landscape, whose composition speaks about something that is beyond that represented by the image. A series of elements that combine with one another to make us wonder about the origin, the elemental, about time, spirit and the unity imbued in the Eternal Return.
The Galapagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, 973 km West of Continental Ecuador. The islands are considered one of the most active volcanic areas in the world. There are 16 main islands and a big number of tiny ones, all separated from the rest of the world by a vast body of water. Beneath the surface of the crust of the Galapagos Islands, there is a large column of melted rock that rises all the way up. This hot point is immense and connects the islands with the center of the Earth.
Milllions of years ago, Galapagos was born out of fire. An eruption in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean expelled lava from the bottom of the sea, the rock layers rose to the surface during more than hundreds of thousands of years and a number of islands emerged from the sea. It is like a geological umbilical cord, a place isolated from the rest of the world, a magical spot for its natural exhuberance and its millenary conservation of endemic animal species that have survived from time immemorial.
The proposed video installation is that, a gaze into this poetic-metaphysical landscape. It is a translation in the gaze in time, conjuring up the Greek philosophical concept of the origin in connection with the mystery of what remains permanent as opposed to multiplicity and change.
This is a work of reminescence that conjures up the ancient Greek word “physis”, used to refer to anything that today we associate with “Nature”. Physis is “birth”, “origin”, the primal deity of Nature and one of the first beings to come into existence at the dawn of time.
This work is intended as a portal into a mysterious landscape, whose composition speaks about something that is beyond that represented by the image. A series of elements that combine with one another to make us wonder about the origin, the elemental, about time, spirit and the unity imbued in the Eternal Return.
The Galapagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, 973 km West of Continental Ecuador. The islands are considered one of the most active volcanic areas in the world. There are 16 main islands and a big number of tiny ones, all separated from the rest of the world by a vast body of water. Beneath the surface of the crust of the Galapagos Islands, there is a large column of melted rock that rises all the way up. This hot point is immense and connects the islands with the center of the Earth.
Milllions of years ago, Galapagos was born out of fire. An eruption in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean expelled lava from the bottom of the sea, the rock layers rose to the surface during more than hundreds of thousands of years and a number of islands emerged from the sea. It is like a geological umbilical cord, a place isolated from the rest of the world, a magical spot for its natural exhuberance and its millenary conservation of endemic animal species that have survived from time immemorial.
The proposed video installation is that, a gaze into this poetic-metaphysical landscape. It is a translation in the gaze in time, conjuring up the Greek philosophical concept of the origin in connection with the mystery of what remains permanent as opposed to multiplicity and change.