On the
London trip I visited the Saatchi Gallery, and in a little room there was a
video playing.
For cps we had to do a presentation on Greta Alfaro. My group decided to look at another one of her videos:
http://vimeo.com/32127237
This is the script from our presentation:
For cps we had to do a presentation on Greta Alfaro. My group decided to look at another one of her videos:
http://vimeo.com/32127237
This is the script from our presentation:
Greta Alfaro was born in 1977 in Spain, works and
lives in and works in London.
2009/2011 - MA Fine-Art-Photography, Royal College of
Art, London
2002/2003 - Randolph-Macon Women's College, Fine Art
Department. VA, USA.
1996/2001 - Graduate in Fine Arts, Unversidad
Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Alfaro is interested in exploring public and private
behaviours and pushing the boundaries. With her work she purposely makes it
disturbing, for example, photo manipulations adding negative features.
She is influenced by Baroque and Surrealism. Her work
with images and narration is dreamlike.
Artistic mission statement – ‘I work about the hidden
and the unexpected. We live our lives governed by rules created in order to
control chaos and vulnerability, but I am interested in the facts we try to
hide or repress, in the differences between the private and the public in the
visibility of our everyday life hypocrisy.’
Format –
Video Installation / Vertical projection from floor to
ceiling
HD, colour, sound, 16:9, 7min.
(play video)
Fall on us and hide from us (2011)
This work is shown in vertical format. It is a video
installation to be enjoyed in a light locked space. The projection has to cover
the entire height of the wall in which it is projected, so that the spectator
gets immersed in the scene, blinded by the light and taken by its rhythm.
It’s about the unseen, flashing images,
Its stop motion, made up of different photos in
different lights, repeated and changed, music – flows, makes it more
interesting, dramatic
Seems to be about death, light comes out from empty
room - …
Bones, foreground
Time – 2009 – 2011, theme of death, war, not stated
specifically.
Before 2009 collages, and photo manipulation
Now she’s doing unknown environments – work has
changed over time
We found one review in the metro about her work at the
Saatchi gallery – (read off powerpoint)
The other work in the show, is disappointing, her work
compared is much more compelling and interesting
Shes inspired by braque and other surrealists, jean de
valis leal – 17th century painting, holds same name, (in the blink
of an eye) - vulture
Skeleton, greed, death,
She works on her own, can’t find group. Group
exhibitions.
