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| IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE, Helicotrema, Reed Room, MACRO, Rome. 2013 |
Aníbal Parada In collaboration with Lydia Lunch. Helicotrema, Recorded Audio Festival, MACRO, Roma. 2013.
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I was waiting for it to get burnt. (2012)
An actor hides his face, covers himself with dust, throws an object and lies on the ground. A photograph of a man burning the pitch of a roof and a text where one can read "I was waiting for it to get burnt" construct a twofold installation (photo and video) specially designed for Pavilion.
The video is a kind of 'material hangover’ from his installation I Was not Here (2011), recorded with a camera whose aim was rather to be an audio guide while another camera captured the main image.
The photograph was taken in Istanbul, after witnessing a tram cornered by 'no trespassing' police cordons, due to a bomb threat inside.
The bomb never exploded, nobody knows if it was actually there. The text was written later and proposes a direct dialogue with the photograph, and between the latter and the video and the text, which, by being a take-away version, constructs a link with the outside, from which the video can be seen. | |||
| PAVILION CENTER, BUCAREST, OCTOBER 2012- FEBRUARY 2013. |
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A curator’s opinion.
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"I WAS NOT HERE", instalation for ESPAI CULTURAL CAJA MADRID, Barcelona, solo show, 2011.
“I Was Not Here” brings together a series of invented images of ‘radical’ topicality as the point of departure for a narrative broken up into sections in an open installation that includes a public intervention, three videos, an audio piece, two almost identical photographs, a sculpture (a piece of metal and glass) and a graphic work that visitors can take with them, created in collaboration with the artist Lydia Lunch. A ‘metallic found object’ recurs as image and as material in the circulation areas, acting as a trigger and as a guide towards solving a supposed problem that cannot be deciphered.
