Younger Ice
Believing in something, which has neither form nor colour, which is ready to take form and colour.
Every year, Arctic sea ice shrinks and grows, reaching its minimum in September and its maximum in February or March.
Younger, thinner ice forms at the edge of the Arctic cap during winter, again and again to melt every year. Young sea ice is typically thin enough to be easily moved by winds and currents, and such ice often takes on serpentine shapes, delicate swirls of ice.
The white paint of a table surface resembling the ice sheet was scraped off, resembling the melting of the Arctic ice.
1' Digital stop motion, 2012
Allure
A video installation shown on small devices (1 device per women); devices keep filling the wall as more recordings are added.
This is an on-going project. Recording women of all backgrounds and ages while performing a single act, putting on make up, disguising, tempting beauty. These women are recorded in their habitual space where they perform this action: car, bathroom, public transportation, watching TV etc.
Everything is shot through the mirror; is this a mere reflection of beauty or reality.
12' Digital, 2009 on-going
Polishing Heaven
The whiteness of this video makes a reference to "heaven" and to what I call silent boundaries. Subtle indications of physical spatial boundaries; not so much as objects in a space but rather the space around the objects.
It is a portrait of a vacuum space: all potent because it is all containing. The emptiness and the nothingness.
8'34" Digital, 2014
Day Dreamers
Sleeping is about impermanence; it is about being in two places at the same time; physically in one place and astrally in one completely different. Sleep comes in a moment and its time is unexpected. All that separates us from being awake and being asleep is one breath. When we fall asleep we are attempting to disconnect from our physical reality by extinguishing all external stimuli and connect to something beyond physicality.
In this 2-channel video installation, I portray onto the sleepy metro riders my awakened state making it their own dreams. My daily experiences become the dreams of the sleepers merging two states of being.
12' Digital, 2011
Run Through Me
This video installation is part of an underwater landscape trilogy that explores the concepts of impermanence and becoming.
The installation of these video projections surrounds the spectator with four tall walls as if the viewer is immersed inside the water.
At different intervals and speeds, a single action is repeated over and over, although each time with a slight change to it. According to the law of nature, repetition is impossible therefor the action of becoming is never the same one.
9' Loop Digital, 4 channel video installation, 2012
Borrowed Landscape
This video installation is part of an underwater landscape trilogy that explores the concepts of impermanence and becoming.
Space and time are regarded as simple tools to put together physical realities.
Each shot is assembled in a way to regard it as a remnant, a portion of the main part that no longer exists (because it has already changed) in the process of becoming.
Free-floating time and space that exists already and at the same time it is about to exist. This video is an articulation of a timeless time with no beginning, no end, no origin, and no destination.
12' Loop Digital, inverted ceiling projection, 2012
EK-TB
An abandoned oil platform in the ocean, once an active structure, its active use has come to an end. An architectural structure standing alone, waiting, dying or giving way for a new life? How will the future ocean landscape once all oil platforms are de-commissioned? Will they become part of future water cities, or will they become nothing but rusted metal until matter seizes to exist?
10' Super 16 Colour Film, 2007
Croon
The familiar, the local, the urban architectural markers that tend to give city dwellers a sense of place of familiarity of belonging. This is a short journey inside the neighborhood’s market, which still houses a variety of special trades, crafts, food and people.
The film was shot in its entirety through a mirror bought in the market, thus rendering the experience of the multiple layers of activity taking place inside the market.
The location is a very familiar place, the neighborhood market, which still houses a variety of people and their special trades.
The film was edited all on camera, no post-production. The sound was composed without seeing the finished film.
3'42" Super 8 Black & White Film, 2007
Dos Hermanos un Cuñado
This short film focuses on the activity of an architectural mobile structure of the city, a street food vendor. From preparation to lunchtime and nigh time, this structure is not mobile anymore but it has made its permanent home by taking over 4 square meters of the busy sidewalk.
The film was edited all on camera, no post-production. The sound was composed without seeing the finished film and superimposed later.
3'42" Super 8 Colour Film, 2008
3800 Sunset
This short film captures a female guest in a hotel room during 24 hours. This is part of an inquiry into how we use and interact with temporary spaces where the outer world is shut out.
The film was edited on camera, no post-production. The sound was composed without seeing the finished film.
3'16" Super 8 Colour Film, 2010
Hunting Stars in the Daylight Sky
I always look up at the sky during daytime hoping to see a star, any celestial object.
This forest creature hunts stars during daytime, although not visible, the creature is able to make stars drop from the sky, eat them and feed from the great cosmos.
This short film was edited all in camera, no post-production. The sound was composed without seeing the finished film.
3'16" Super 8 Colour Film, 2015