Flares

Flares is a silent shadow-theatre video where a number of phantasmagorical human figures hidden behind a semi-opaque surface use light to call the public’s attention as if they were lost and wanted to get located.
This work is inspired by the uncertain nature of both our social/political context (in the globalized neoliberal era) and artistic creation. The creative process behind it is an oscillation between pairs of opposite concepts, such as intuition-reasoning, personal-universal experience, figurative-abstract, presence-absence, light-shadow, or what is controlled-what is not; exploring the possibilities in between these concepts. Improvisation, time, body and space are also important ideas in this piece and affect decisively the appeareance of the work.