Single Channel
Duration: 1'10''
Personally Like Everyone Else was based on the Vampire film
sequence (1931- 32) from Carl Th. Dreyer. This approach to Dryer ambience doesn`t
work as a quotation (in the sense that the final logic is removed) or appropriation
(in the sense that it`s not about working upon Dryer images but to create a
new sequence from the same grid), using the cinematographic reference to work
inside the parameters of the language of contemporary art issues as the narrative,
the editing, the filming process and the interpretation. If in Vampire the
unfolding character (usually used in the cinema history) suggests us the idea
of death, here, after a first moment of pause and reflection, the protagonist
seems to retake his own body before leaving the field. Holding suspended what`s
behind and what`s in front, the tension of this work comes from a subtle familiarity
between the logic and the narrative integrity of the fragment and an open work
as a possibility.
Single Channel
Duration: 50''
If in Personally Like Everyone Else the relation between fiction
and daily reality was filtrated by Dryer cinema reference here its reinforced and seems
much more perturbing. Also in this original sequence, very close with the preceding
one in terms of atmosphere, the author assumes himself as an actor. The duplication
metaphor is now concentrated in a close up of an eye which looks to the exterior
of himself.
Single Channel
Duration: 1'10''
In Rendez Vous video the tension is focused on a folded sheet
of white letter paper inside an envelope, which pass from one hand to another without never being disclosed its contents. One letter that can unfold itself in a delayed
meeting, in a confession or in the lovers silence. For the first time there
is a new character. Although its an appearance without identity nor face. One
can only recognize her femininity through her gestures and figure.
Single Channel
Duration: 3'15''
Ascendance as a unique movement. A passage to something outside ourselves
trough an inner deslocation. Like in Personally Like Everyone
Else, O Caso and Rendez Vous, the idea of a constant search for our reflex inside something
outside from ourselves still prevails.
Nuno Faria in Arte Ibérica N-44, March 2001
pp. 30-31
