LES FRANQUESES DEL VALLÈS
2019 -
FUERA DE CAMPO - Project
Installation - Audio - video - painting. Variable measurements
In cinematographic language, the notion of "out of field" alludes to everything that persists beyond the optical frame in which the image is circumscribed. In relation to the prison, the metaphor refers to the influence and the continuity of the existence of everything that makes up the world that has remained outside the cement cube. In the three art pieces Red, Grey and Black, the framework of development is the "outside" landscape, and their implications vary according to the relationship established, physical or emotional.
Red
Black
Grey
COMMON SPACE - Project
Installation - painting
“Espacio Común” is a plastic reflection around the prison's space as a form of distancing, made of a group of assemblies that refer to the distribution generated when a room is built to confine people. The symbolic lack of light, and at the same time, the same small light bulb that is kept on, despite the confinement. Large-format paintings are arranged, in such a way, that they form borders like the walls that hide the light. Grey prism of high walls, light and dark circles, but closed and made of concrete. Natural prison, social prison.
Green
Prism
Circle
IMAGE ARCHIVE
ROJO (Red) is a journey through the exterior landscape of the youth prison in the city of La Roca del Vallès in Barcelona. This "physical out-of-field" has as its axis the video recording of the landscape adjacent to the exterior walls of the penitentiary centre and presents small detentions of the duration of one photogram. This still image is a photogram of the external continuity, a frozen picture of the landscape that they no longer see, a dramatised photogram in red, is subsequently converted into each and every one of the pictorial pieces that make up the ensemble. A relationship between the exterior and interior landscape of the prison is proposed, represented by the sound heard throughout the room. This sound is result of hours of recordings of the daily interior of the penitentiary center itself.
NEGRO (Black), a metaphor for the intimate or familiar out-of-field, is the “out-of-field” of responsibilities, of affections and their affectations. As a society we are also responsible for this drama. It consists of nine black squares arranged around an urn containing a “cururo” of wool from the (shredded) blankets with which the inmates protect themselves from the cold on winter nights. With this "continuous orange wool," mittens have been knitted; they are the protectors with which the infant protects himself in the first years of his life. In prison, emotional pain develops into physical pain in various ways; the most common is self-harm.
GRIS (Grey) raises the problem of solitary confinement. In this "social out-of-field," two paintings facing each other capture the photographic image of the unattainable exterior landscape captured from two windows of two cells with such privileged exterior view. On each "window-picture" are projected the subtitles that translate the audio that is heard balanced towards each of the paintings. These are various "shouted" conversations between the interns recorded inside the prison, one from a newcomer's cell and the other from the module located at the opposite end of the penitentiary center.
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