LEER CON LAS MANOS

2021

To read with the hands
A journey through the photographic work Leer con las manos, a series that explores the relationship between gaze and reading. Made for the Festival of Reading, MALBA, premiered on May 15, 2021.

TRABAJOS PRÁCTICOS

2021

Practical tasks
Aída Carballo (1916-1985) was a fundamental Argentine artist. This video takes as a starting point a series of personal documents of the artist that show her activity in the local and international environment, her teaching work, some study notes, bureaucratic procedures. In the latter you can see the evolution of her signature, from childhood to adulthood and creative maturity, when her name began to be part of her work. In this work, the tracing of her manuscripts becomes a form of proximity and an attempt to repeat an alien gesture that is never achieved.

LA HUELLA DE SATURNO

2018

The footprint of Saturn
This video takes footage filmed in the workshops of the National Museum of Science Bernardino Rivadavia. In it we see the hands of the scientists preparing the fossil pieces found by Argentine paleontologists for their subsequent classification and sample. It was exhibited in the individual exhibition Stone, scissors, paper, Galería Hache, Buenos Aires, 2018.

EL TALLER DE LA RESURRECCIÓN

2017

The resurrection workshop
L`Officina della resurrezione is a musical work composed by Fabián Panisello in 2013 in collaboration with italian writer Erri de Lucca who reelaborated a part of the Book of Ezekiel, Old Testament, a passage in the Bible called The valley of dry bones. My contribution was the visual work that accompanied its execution live in the main auditorium of the Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid, in February 2017, within the framework of the oficial invitation that Spain made to Argentina as guest country in the ARCO Art Fair.

The video shows a series of fossils that belong to the collections of the Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires. There, paleontological pieces of plant species, vertebrates and microorganisms that existed in the earth millions of years ago are housed. Some are native specimens, others were brought from other collections, from other parts of the world. Where the carbon of the bones and plants was replaced by silicon, the stone kept the forms and modern science has been able, in the last two hundred years, to resuscitate in some way the information that these bodies carry.

ALIEN

2016

Fragments of the film Alien Resurrection (1997), by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, in which the image is shown as the basis of a sway in the soundtrack between the original version and its dubbing into Spanish.

FANTASMA

2015

Ghost
The video takes some scenes from the movie The Philadelphia Story, by George Cukor (1940), and overlaps the original version with the dubbed version in Spanish, achieving an effect of doubling the image andsound. Thus, the original plot based on a series of romantic doubts and disagreements, in a style of fast and sparkling dialogue, gets an extra layer of information, which can illuminate certain aspects of the meeting: the translation between languages becomes a metaphor of (in)communication in love.

MEDIA/MEDIUMS

2015

Fragments of iconic North American series and movies, dubbed into Mexican Spanish.

JANO

2015

Janus
Janus was, in Roman mythology, a two-faced god: one face looking to the past and the other to the future. Janus was the god of doorways, beginnings and endings. In this series, the book´s page behaves like Janus, going from past to future of a text or vice versa. Jano is the attempt to revise the minimum portion of time that can be frozen in movement, through image.

LOS SONIDOS DE ATRÁS

2014

Sounds from behind
The video shows a dubbing class taught by Humberto Vélez, the creator of the Latin voice of Homer Simpson, in a recording studio. Filmed in Mexico City in 2011.

BILINGÜE

2013

Bilingual
The video shows the documentation of a series of situations related to the production of a play that was performed in Germany involving a German dancer, an Argentine singer, and three Argentine musicians from a wichi community. Considering this unique event -which takes place between Berlin and Santa Victoria Este, in the province of Salta (Argentina)- as a starting point, the video develops a series of reflections and observations about the experiences and ways in which different forms of communication and cultural translation are put into play, along with its obstacles, bridges, shortcuts and challenges.

DOBLES

2013

Doubles compiles a series of interviews with Mexican dubbing actors, whose voices are iconic for television and film seen on Latin America from the 60s onwards. These figures tell stories about their metier, while they also develop reflections on the role of the task, the translation, the supposed neutrality of language, the relationship between image and sound, and other ideas.

JUANA Y FAUSTA

2011

Juana and Fausta
A hand browses the argentine edition of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë´s novel, published in a children´s collection called “Robin Hood”, very popular for generations of Argentineans. The gestures repeats with a book printed in Arabic, as a counterpoint between two languages, two ways of writing and reading . The illustrations also shows two types of aesthetics of female representation, intervened by a gesture that recreates the figure of the veil, trying to find out if stereotypes are in the picture or in our interpretation of it.

DICTADOS

2009

B

2008

B. is a travel diary, a self-portrait, and an audiovisual essay at the same time. It was filmed in the city of Paris during 2007 using Walter Benjamin´s Arcades Project as a starting point. The video develops what Benjamin called “constellations” of data, facts and thoughts, which are connected to each other, crossing time and distance, in a concept of visual history and writing as assemblies of fragments. In this way, the story is shaped as a record of an experience of knowledge in which action, thought and gaze intersect all the time to confront literature and reality, memory and present; the city today, with its postmodern problems and its modernization of the modern dream that the city of Paris represents.

PANTALLA

2008

Screen
The pen portrays what he sees on the screen of the film camera on paper, in a kind of artisanal «mise en abyme».

TR(A)UMATIC

2007

Images filmed in a combine factory in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, dialogue with rural scenes from a children´s book illustrated with Brueghel´s paintings.

LECTURA PÚBLICA

2005

Public reading
Video made at the request from the artist Mirtha Dermisache, documenting an inauguration of her homonymous exhibition at the Centro de España en Buenos Aires, in 2005. Edition revised by the artist.