You Came with the Breeze-2
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Inside a "Genetics Laboratory", amidst the spectator’s presence, two machines generate industrial wombs, inside of which living, moving beings struggle for life. The bubbles intertwine, allowing both gestating life forms to meld into one. At this point, a new transgenic being, a hybrid-dream-phenomenon-monster emerges.
"You came with the breeze - 2" is an investigative project, inspired in imaginary genetics. The lab is no longer a metaphoric state, it is a reality. Elements such as water, soap, humidity, superficial density, evaporation, and basic fluid physics, allow the production of large bubbles resembling an industrial womb, where images are projected, creating a borderline place where virtual reality side sweeps life and, where the illusion of creating something organic from the inorganic, arises.
Two machines comprise the main elements of the installation "YOU CAME WITH THE BREEZE - 2". Each one of them, alongside an autonomous robot, is capable of constantly creating bubbles measuring two meters in diameter. As the bubbles receive steam injections, they turn into screens capable of reflecting images from a projector.
The moving images emerge and new live beings can be seen within each one of the bubbles. When both bubbles clash, they are enjoined, thus creating a larger bubble, with a novel image, resulting from the genetic combination. The bubble is shown as a sort of industrial womb belonging to the new gestating beings.
Biography
Venezuela 1966
Filmmaker. Fine Arts’ artist.
Studies Filmmaking in the first generation of the Cinema School EICTV, Cuba, created by Gabriel García Marquez, 1986. In 1994, she directs “STREET 22”, amassing 22 international awards. She wrote, directed and produced her first feature, “AT MIDNIGHT AND A HALF”, Venezuela/Perú, 1999: Official participation in 40 international festivals, such as Tokyo, Rotterdam and Seattle, also receiving several Opera Prima awards. In 2007 she releases her second feature “POSTCARDS FROM LENINGRAD”: Grand Prix Biarritz, France; Revelation Jury Award and Young peoples choice, Mostra International Cinema de Sao Paulo; 7 awards, including Best Film, National Film Festival, Venezuela; and 6 awards, including Best Venezuelan Film, by Festival Caracas.
In the Fine Arts, her installation “AND I WHO LOVED HER SO”, received Special Recognition- IV Salón Pirelli, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, 2000. Her next installation, “CAME WITH THE BREEZE” was first shown at Fragment and Universe Expo- Colectiva de Arte Contemporáneo Venezolano, Fundación Corp Group. Caracas, 2003; Then it was shown at Museé de la Ranquete, Clermont Ferrand, France 2004; “CAME WITH THE BREEZE 1.5” was shown at Expo DataSpace, Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Mexico City 2005; Plataforma 2006, Puebla, Mexico and “Emergentes”, La Laboral, Gijon, Spain, November 2007. She currently prepares “CAME WITH THE BREEZE-2”,- Prize for Production, Fundación Telefónica VIDA ARTIFICIAL 0.8, Spain 2006.
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