Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The Mapfre Canarias Foundation has inaugurated the exhibition ‘Inside Me’, a sample of eleven artists who make a “review of the history of video art of the last 30 years” and address “all topics that are important to today’s society.
This is how the collaborator of this exhibition, Paco Barragán, has defined it, who has indicated that this exhibition brings together the trends, techniques and themes in video that have been manifesting themselves internationally for three decades.
“Inside Me” has been divided into 8 thematic blocks lasting two weeks each, with ‘The painting’ represented by Tim White-Sobieski and Jeremy Blake; ‘The feminine identity’ with works by Ellen Cantor, ‘The tourist’, in the hands of Julian Rosefeldt; ‘The participation, with Oliver Herring as representative; or ‘Surrealism’ with the works of Olaf Breuning and Miwa Yanagi.
The block ‘El tiempo’ will be represented by the artist Gianfranco Foschino; while ‘La marea’ will star the creations of Enrique Ramírez and Lilly Lulay; and ‘The body’ with the work of Federica Dauri.
The exhibition will open its doors in the afternoon of this March 30 with the first two artists of ‘Inside Me’, Tim White and Jeremy Blake, who will give way to the next block on April 13.
The temporal arc, Barragán has said, runs from “the iconic work Madame Bovary by the American Ellen Cantor, dated 1995, to the most recent ‘When the tides rise’ by the Chilean Enrique Ramírez”, carried out in 2022.
It seeks to “bring closer the perspectives and stories that largely share a fondness for the emotional, the autobiographical and the personal” in a “performative stance and an experimental eagerness”.
It is “an ambitious proposal” because it “addresses the different and exciting languages of contemporary video, from remakes and digital experimentation to the sophisticated use of cinematographic techniques and the fixed camera or the techniques when recording collective performances”, has explained.
‘Inside Me’ is “a review of 30 years of life and what has happened in recent years”, both in terms of themes and aesthetics or the most important techniques, said the coordinator of the exhibition, “with artists from first line”.
It addresses “all the issues that are important to today’s society, such as identity, gender, or sexuality”, through the video, which Barragán defines as “a very interesting tool that everyone understands in today’s society and which also supposes a language in which the rest of the artistic tools come together, from photography, painting, or installation”.
Nowadays, he has pointed out, “video artists are not just artists, they are artists who connect with any theme” with a multitude of tools that come together in the video.
The Mapfre Canarias Foundation will host the exhibition until July 21 in its Juan de Quesada exhibition hall, at a rate of two weeks per block of artists.
The Culture coordinator of the Mapfre Canarias Foundation, Andrea Marrero, has confessed that she is “very happy” to receive this exhibition, highlighting “the luxury” of having the works of these artists as part of the same exhibition. EFE