“Heaven falling” can be visited in Arthaus until November. The author is the Argentine Sebastián Díaz Morales, who has reside in Amsterdam for 30 years
Jorge La FerlaResearcher in Audiovisual Arts and Media, Master in Art at the University of Pittsburg, has recently been awarded by half Art Histories for Contribution to The Field, one of the most important awards in medial art. Thanks to his personal guided tour and as a curator of the exhibition “The sky falling” We were able to enter the spirit and critical look of the Argentine artist Sebastián Díaz Morales that has lived in Amsterdam for 30 years.
Born in 1975 in Comodoro Rivadavia, he trained at the University of Buenos Aires, the Amsterdam and Le Fresnoy in France. The sample occupies two rooms, six videos are included, surrounded by soundtracks designed by the South African composer Philip Miller and his works appear in the collections of the Tate (London) and that of the Pompidou de Paris).
The visitor would believe that the images are filmed by a camera that runs through the scenes outdoors but with the exception of “Burned forest” In room 1, video installation, vertical screen, was filmed in Los Alerces National Park, in which a character crosses a burned forest on a snowy plain.
Also in room 1 you see the work that gives title to the exhibition “The sky falling”video installation of two synchronized screens 13 ‘on loop, “Liquid retina”, Video installation, LED modules, 13 ‘in loop in which wars, migrants, “the decomposition world, in trance, according to La Ferlaa warning about human neglect in the destruible nature, intolerance, war conflicts, misinformation. ”These are video captures under study, models to which the lens approaches with a slow camera movement.
Everything is done by computer and its operative algorithms and data traffic. Streaming sent by networks from the artist’s study in Amsterdam is formatted to be distributed through codes and synchronisms. They are the Raspberries, compact size miniors, almost like a credit card, hidden in the two rooms that operate as controllers of all sound and image information.
A new language with which we must familiarize ourselves since our training except some technological samples that we have dealt with in these years, is limited to images of pictures, brushes, drawing lines, engravings, photographs, videos that also express the collapse of a civilization that has been taken to the show, which reminds us of the French philosopher and essayist Guy Debord (1931-1994) and his book “The show society” in which it analyzes how art becomes a merchandise that is presented as a product, losing its critical or transformer potential to become a superficial and controlled experience.
None of this happens in “the sky falling” since Díaz Morales proposes to disassemble the images of the disaster until finding the codes to rewrite the future. “The artist uses the term” apocalyptic “to describe the permanent condition we inhabit: a climate more than a cataclysm.” A sample to reflect on a possible future world and get out of a world as divided as the current one, of so many crises, of so many cracks that separate us.
Díaz Morales He points out that “you will not find the solution but here the wars are seen, the ecological crises, scenes that made us agree with what is recently done by CONICET since the universe can still be explored and find life. His gaze, without concessions, on the current state of humanity, a proposal that magazine character of urgent.
Arthaus, Bartolomé Miter 434. Free admission from 13 to 20. Closing on November 16.
Source: Ambito
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