Wake
up
Video, 5:25 min, 2005
Reanimation of a volcano in Catamarca, Argentina.
At four thousand meters above sea level.
Video, 5:25 min, 2005
Reanimation of a volcano in Catamarca, Argentina.
At four thousand meters above sea level.
Travestis
Video, 4:20 min, 2003
At midnight in a square in Buenos Aires, six transvestites play on the slide, swings and teeter totter in a public playground, while the song "Je t'aime" by Sèrge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin is heard. In "Travestis" there is not a natural body, but rather one that must enter by way of culture in order to be transformed into a subject. The images of the video in the square constitute not only an aesthetic reference but they also impose a gesture of subjectivity through their capacity for retrospect. The circular movements of the camera coincide with the atemporal atmosphere created by the space, inhabited by each of these subjects, providing a glimpse into every one of their ages.
Video, 4:20 min, 2003
At midnight in a square in Buenos Aires, six transvestites play on the slide, swings and teeter totter in a public playground, while the song "Je t'aime" by Sèrge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin is heard. In "Travestis" there is not a natural body, but rather one that must enter by way of culture in order to be transformed into a subject. The images of the video in the square constitute not only an aesthetic reference but they also impose a gesture of subjectivity through their capacity for retrospect. The circular movements of the camera coincide with the atemporal atmosphere created by the space, inhabited by each of these subjects, providing a glimpse into every one of their ages.
| Gregor
Passens |
(Germany,
1974) Studied at the Munich Fine Arts Academy. During the past two
years he has participated in exhibitions in Tirana, Amsterdam, Munich,
Copenhagen, Pristina, Bolzano and Buenos Aires. Among other distinctions,
he has received the Premio de Bayern, and that of the Fundación
Erwin and Gisela Steiner, in addition to a DAAD grant, with which
he carried out the gallery-boat project "A Parasite Showing"
in Buenos Aires in 2003. |
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