Video EYES / EYES / EYES / EYES, by Albert García-Alzórriz, duration: 30 minutes. Filmed, in part, at the statue depository on Via Favencia in Barcelona. The poet Gabriel Ventura collaborated in the script.
In an archive fragments of demolished statues are conserved. Next to each fragment there's the stone that was originally thrown and did the damage. Through audiovisual language, the video explores the ambivalence of the image, the material and subjectivity. "Two symmetrical shards, born from one sole gesture. Identical in some ways; it is not known which one claimed the destruction," explains García-Alzórriz. This is starting point image from where a spiralling narrative will unfold, to which the spectator assists over and over again. A story explained through variations.
The four chapters that make up the video all begin with the myth of Prometheus written by Franz Kafka. The characters (subjects and objects, indifferently) are united by the routine of the archive: archivists, photographs, statues, stones, fans, lamps, fluorescent lamps, neon signs... they all form part of a spacious and temporary labyrinth that houses all of the demolished statues in history. A dense ambiance, saturated with reflections and shadows, where another reality is offered: one where reason is suspended, tensed between the image of resistance and the resistance of the image.
The video is in black and white, with the exception of the epilogue which is in colour. Black and white fuses "the beings that are apparently alive and apparently inert into a chromatic common denominator, participating in the ambiguity of that which is alive and that which is not." The narration is achieved through subtitles and the ambient sound in every scene.
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