| THE FIRST WAVE Works in times of a pandemic 2020 In March 2020, at the beginning of the first lockdown because of the pandemic, I proposed to Metanoia, my group of women artists, to send each other works in alphabetical order of our names by email. With no restrictions on theme or medium and with an open end in time, we exchanged our creations for months in a free flow - receiving a work every day and sending a work of our own every eighth day. |
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9 April 2020 from 9:41 am to 6:41 pm The view from my balcony on the street to the San Isidro Mortuary became a painful privilege: the numbers of coronavirus deaths do have a face and were made visible and audible by the endless queue of hearses day after day. I set up the camera on any given day to record this incessant movement and with the camera running I received a call that my friend Elisa had died this day from coronavirus in a nursing home. The video Hearses is a tribute to Elisa and to all those who have died from the pandemic. |
| Green Deal - 19 May 2020 2020, video, 16:9, stereo, 4:20 min Immersed in the stupor, overwhelmed by such intense feelings experienced during all the past weeks came at last the moment of a certain awakening. But it was not a relieved awakening after a sleep but a bittersweet awakening from a rusty dream: much had changed and nothing had changed. The whole economy came to a standstill for a while and as a consequence all activity calmed down: cars parkt at the roadside, the air for a while clean and breathable and a prevailing silence. But one notices that social and political life went on all the time. Now they are bringing out the ecological transition, renewable energies and the EU's Green Deal with billion-dollar subsidies for the automobile industry. It sounds good but it doesn't deliver what it promises and the video Green Deal exemplifies with dissonant humour how green, ecological and sustainable an electric, clean and emission-free car can be. |
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| HARTA (FED UP) 2020, video loop, 16:9, silent, 1:43 min The video HARTA (fed up) expresses the feeling of tiredness, exhaustion and burnout. |
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| ESCONDIDO (HIDDEN) 2020, video and improvisation with flute, 16:9, stereo, 4:51 min. HIDDEN: the virus seems to be phasing out but not disappearing. |
still from the video 9 April 2020