Exhibition

THE LOOKING GLASS ( Act 2)-'Kiss the Murder'&'Laughter in the Dark'-Maria Canas

1 Feb 2017 – 11 Feb 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

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Video Intallation of Maria Cañas's 'Kiss the Murder' and 'Laughter in the dark'

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THE LOOKING GLASS ( Act 2)-  María Cañas (1972, Sevilla, Spain)

'Kiss the Murderer', 2008 | 'Laughter in the Dark', 2015

February 1st to February 11th 2017

Opening February 1st. 6:00pm to 9:00 pm. Screening at 7:00pm

María Cañas deploys satire in spliced video collages on love and murder that call to mind the films of Hitchcock and Kubrick and the political collages of Hannah Hoch.Hypnotic, dark and funny, Cañas’ cinematic collage muses on love, longing and death over images of art and film heroines and their doppelganger reflections. Desire floats in a hall of dark mirrors where the subject and object of love are the same. Raucous laughter is a destabilising and subversive tool, a delirious state from which a different truth might be found. Red is the colour of both lust and murder. Cañas works with stolen fragments and faded moments, abundant and ignored. As Hitchcock advised – Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

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CuratorsToggle

Pedro Font-Alba

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María Cañas

Taking part

Spanish Contemporary Art Network

Spanish Contemporary Art Network

London, United Kingdom

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