still from the video BUNT
The video BUNT focuses precisely on this vegetation intervened by human action. Through an abstraction of the motifs, it allows us to immerse ourselves in the contemplation of colour and its tonalities, turning the projection screen into a virtual canvas, a digital painting in minuscule movement.
It is an invitation to delight in visualising the liquid frontier between artificiality and the essence of nature - its fragility and transience, its singularity and imperfection, its mysterious and enigmatic power - an ephemeral gesture, exquisitely useless and idle, as immeasurable as art or as gifting flowers.
still from the video BUNT
With the introduction of frames the idea of painting is emphasised. A frame has the function of directing the view, focusing on a detail, selecting a space, framing an area and thus producing an interior and an exterior. Together with the choice of the field of view of the video recording and the edge of the projection screen, multiple possibilities of combination of these different frames are created. In each sequence I experiment with these notions in a different way: either with frames cut by the edge of the projection, or with frames moving slowly over the video motif, or with frames appearing and disappearing over an out-of-focus motif and gradually revealing a focused motif.
The video BUNT is an articulated and formal composition condensing the plants and flowers to their pure colour essence. Through the extension of time and a slight digital treatment a distancing is produced between the raw material - the concrete flower of the Madrid Rio park - and the almost abstract representation. This is taken to the extreme by the sense of artificiality of the digital video medium: an immaterial, ephemeral beam of light that appears and disappears without leaving a material trace. |
The starting point of the video BUNT - which in German means multicoloured - is a recently created public park in the centre of Madrid, called Madrid Río, abouve the motorway tunnel of the so-called M-30, Madrid's main traffic ring road.
The linear architecture of this park, following the route of both the motorway and the Manzanares river, is characterised by a plantation divided into large areas of monoculture which, through intensive and artificial care, come into bloom in perfect harmony at the same moment. They look like huge carpets of a single strong and bright colour.
 still from the video BUNT
Six monographic sequences are between 3 and 4 minutes for each per primary colour - green, red, blue, yellow, orange and purple - in close up. For each sequence I chose specific digital modifications: either a gradual and slow change between colour and black and white or the other way round; either blurring or the introduction of different frames for each colour.
The focus on a single motif together with the slowness of the modifications dilates the sensation of time, allowing one to immerse oneself in the contemplation of colour and its tonalities. Through the lack of abrupt changes, by gradually abstracting the details towards an abstraction of the motifs, one enters into a state of reception of pure colour, colour in mass. The projection screen thus becomes a virtual canvas, a digital painting in minuscule movement allowing contemplation.
still from the video BUNT
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