Mireia c. Saladrigues
(Terrassa, 1978)- Virtual Tour, 2017
- Buscaré un lugar para ti, 2014
- A Specific Representation, 2014
- Exploration of the gaze, 2014
- Rotacions #2 The Exit: Scalators Views, 2013
- Rotacions #2 The Exit: Visitors leaving the Museum, 2013
- Rotacions #2 The Exit: Scalators in Loop, 2013
- Benvinguts. Tenim la mateixa hora, 2012
- Mind your manners! #1 & #2, 2012
- Her museum, 2011
- Radicalmente emancipado(s), 2011
- Inventari d'art, 2009, 2010
- Zoolar eclipse, 2009
- Els significats de l’art, 2009
- El poder de la convocatòria (libro), 2009
- El poder de la convocatòria (dibujo), 2009
- El poder de la convocatòria, 2008
- Projecte E/F, 2008
A Specific Representation, 2014
Video - Performance
Video: 8m 5 sec / Performance: 2 h
A Specific Representation is an invitation to think about the dichotomy between what is biological and what is learned; between the natural and the representational. It focuses on the being as reification, rendering, and contemplative edification. In the eight minutes of the original work, created as a single shot video, four people move normatively and repeat pensive gestures within a white environment that doesn’t have any spatial reference. The “actors” are dancers undergoing a one-day session iterative exercise, recalling the body memory, while recovering and re-enacting the same learned gestures that we are all familiar with.
In such “suspended space” that is white as it could be red, black or green for financial reasons, the artist was interested in inquiring: Does the museum emerge from the “non-space” when recalling the learned gestures? If so, are the “normative and repetitive gestures” in themselves the museum per se? The final output of this poetic video work became in itself a reply to the initial questions. By one hand, the resemblance of the white “non-space” to the white cube evokes the museum, while by the other hand, the exercise for isolating the movements of an spectator, makes us think of any person as an actor. In such way, and as if it would be a mirror, when the work is being projected, instigating visitors to be conscious of their position and their condition.
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