Carlos Casas · Fieldworks

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Fieldworks is Carlos Casas' first solo exhibition in Switzerland, entirely dedicated to the eponymous series that the Spanish artist has been developing since 2000: a collection of experimental audiovisual notes with which he seeks to capture the atmospheric and spiritual qualities of a place. Stemming from extensive travels to more than twenty countries, this series has led to the creation of dozens of videos, sound works and installations, divided into thirty chapters.

We surveyed twenty-two years of intense production and encountered meditations on the archetypes of nature and man, descriptions of atmospheric phenomena, experiments on the limits of vision, and psychedelic interventions in which cinema transfigures territorial exploration, where sound is the medium where many of Casas' projects often converge. A sound that is often documentary in nature (conceived as a field recording), but also filtered and edited in an experimental way.

For the exhibition at La Rada, three non-linear sequences of Fieldworks are proposed in an environment conceived by Casas, increasingly darker and minimal, with neon ultraviolet lights. A sequence for monitor (with works from the series shot in Patagonia, the Aral Sea and Siberia), one for speakers (with two sound recordings, including a work in progress made in Ticino) and a final sequence for projector, with a selection of the most recent pieces (shot in Iceland, Italy, Turkey, Egypt and Indonesia) and two works in progress made in Svalbard, an archipelago between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole.