Exhibition
THE LOOKING GLASS ( Act 2)-'Kiss the Murder'&'Laughter in the Dark'-Maria Canas
01 Feb 2017 – 11 Feb 2017
Scan Project Room
London, United Kingdom
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'El Cataclismo nos alcanzara Impavidos', 2015- Greta Alfaro. Video Still
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'El Cataclismo nos alcanzara impavidos', 2015- Greta Alfaro. Video Still
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'El Cataclismo nos alcanzara impavidos', 2015- Greta Alfaro. Exhibition Flyer
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'El Cataclismo nos alcanzara impavidos', 2015- Greta Alfaro. Video Still
Screening
THE LOOKING GLASS ( Act 1)-'El cataclismo nos alcanzara impavidos',2015-Greta Alfaro
18 Jan 2017 – 28 Jan 2017
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
free
Address
- 13-19 Herald street
- London
England - E2 6JT
- United Kingdom
Event map
The premier in the UK of Greta Alfaro's controversial short film 'El cataclismo nos alcanzara impavidos' filmed in 2015 during her stay in the Spanish Academy in Rome.
About
'EL CATACLISMO NOS ALCANZARA IMPAVIDOS', 2015
GRETA ALFARO
Single-channel video. 2K, colour, silent, 17:9, 31min.20sec
Greta Alfaro addresses the iconography and formalism of the baroque - and in particular the feast- as a means of implicating the spectator within the spectacle.
Filmed during a residence at the Spanish Academy in Rome, the video observes a banquet table gorgeously lit and dressed - a performed still life in the Dutch visual tradition -replete with symbolic and moral coding. Present at the table are two silent female voyeurs filming on hand-held iphones while an actor engages the feast. During the performance the still life gradually loses its integrity in an increasingly intense and intimate manner, just as the genre of the Dutch still-life also evolved from the symbolism of morality to a display of gratuitous abundance and wealth. In her reasearch ot the iconography of martyrdom, Alfaro observes that in order to complete the cycle, the martyr must accept the punishment.
*Please note this work contains sexually explicit content
