Tensiones Video Art Program

In the second screening we can find artists as Itziar Barrio and Janet Biggs who look at different topics with a common denominator, the relationship between the individual and the community. Both approach the subject from different perspectives as the loneliness, the community. Barrio theorizes on the construction of an ideal world, using symbols that she extracts of context and taking them to another level of thought creating a new language according to the ideal World that she proposes. Whereas Biggs gives to the space an important role on her videos, she intersperses opened and closed spaces, the nature on its maximum magnificence with the meeting places of the community where the individual feels safe inside the group.

Carlos Irijalba focuses his attention on the representation of the nature. He understands the city as the natural environment of the human being. He alters the nature by exploring familiar objects and by playing with the amazing effects produced by removing those objects of their regular contexts. Some examples of the elements used by this artist are mirrors, cars, areas of lights, and the nature itself inserted in the city. The individual here acts as spectator of the proposed changes.

Finally, the works of Jose Carlos Casado takes us into worlds of power, fears and desire. His work is about "reality" and its perception. By exploring established roles, he investigates the boundaries of our beliefs, of feelings and what makes us accept what we see. For example, where does pleasure end and pain begin? Who is the victim and who the attacker?. Casado shows us glimpses of the crudeness and violence of the daily life and also the relation between fantasy and reality.