WITNESSES OF AN EXTENDING TERRITORY - VIDEO PROJECT AT PINTA BAphoto
The eighth edition of Video Project, curated by Irene Gelfman, invites us to immerse in the concept of territory through the moving image. In video art we find a sense of curiosity and exploration that challenges our ideas of materiality and expands to embrace the most intimate. In six selected works, the notion of territory addresses bodies, landscapes and symbols, questioning the stability of physical and conceptual limits. The territory becomes a fluctuating space, as critical as the viewer's place.
The works by Tadeo Muleiro, Amadeo Azar and Nicolás Martella focus on the motif of travel. In these pieces we witness material and spiritual relocation.
Muleiro's video presents a spirit that embodies a textile piece and moves from the countryside to the city, heading towards the statue of Julio Argentino Roca, a key figure of the “Desert Campaign”. This piece confronts the uprooting and historical violence associated with the expansion of Argentine territory. History is reinterpreted and challenged in a symbolic scenario that invites reflection on belonging and displacement.
Sharing the theme, Azar addresses Argentine history in his piece “El medio de la nada” (The middle of nowhere), where drawing and sound invade the territories conquered during Roca's campaigns. This 15-minute work creates an intimate atmosphere that dilates the territory and connects it with the social imaginaries of a nation under construction. Between the shots, a mosaic of political, emotional and cultural gestures is archetyped.
In Martella's extensive work “SKY (CityTour)”, the sky is presented to us as a universal territory. The video offers a minimalist and expansive perspective. This sky, infinite and immutable, relativizes time and creates a virtual space without limits that contrasts with the physical boundaries of the city.
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Tadeo Muleiro. El Abuelo, 2012, 5:14 min, video
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Amadeo Azar. Realizado en interlocución con la dramaturga Mariana Oberstern. Título: El medio de la nada - Año 2024 Edición 1/5 y 1 PA - Duración: 15 min 54 seg. Idealmente para mostrarse en loop. Técnica: video monocanal con sonido.
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Nicolas Martella. SKY (CITYTOUR). 2018. VIDEO. SIN SONIDO. 50:52. ED ⅓ + AP
Alejandro Kuropatwa's “Aurora e Himno Nacional Argentino” (Aurora and Argentine National Anthem) questions patriotic symbols and institutions in an irreverent parody. In this historic and outstanding piece in the discipline of video art, the Argentine anthem is reinterpreted by characters from the queer performance scene, challenging and expanding notions of belonging and identity. Going through multiple layers of meaning, Ivana Vollaro, in a 17-second microvideo, presents a bush that defies the logic of visibility: protagonism is focused on the hidden. This work suggests that this symbolic territory exists always and everywhere, even if we do not perceive it.
The omnipresent is crystallized in Erica Bohm's "Esa noche había en el aire un olor a tiempo" (That night there was a smell of time in the air). In her work, the artist explores the territory of time itself. The physical and conceptual excursion from Antarctica to the North Pole becomes a performance where the self dissolves in the vastness of space.
This section of Pinta BAphoto explores the confines of photography and pushes the limits of reality. Gelfman brings us from an increasingly near future a way of understanding history and space as layers of the same matrix. Visual, sonorous and immersive, the Video Project section creates its own territory by hovering the photographic arts. This kind of visual poetry brings its own logic that cannot but remain in motion.
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