SHAKE WHAT WAS PERCEIVED AS IMMOBILE

Generaciones 2025 Award, Fundación Montemadrid.​

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Videoinstallation (Two 390 x 220 cm screens, video (colour, digitally modelled images, 3D scanners, 16 mm film shots, 9:16, stereo sound, interactive mechanism, 15 min)

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In a world where images have been institutionalised as the main mediator of reality, it is essential to question what we see and how we see it. When she references Foucault in her book Imágenes que resisten [Images that Resist] (2023), Andrea Soto Calderón proposes a challenge that goes beyond the simple gaze, inviting us to shake what seemed immobile and break up what we thought was united. This mandate, which demands interrogating the visual certainties that shape us, is one of the multiple premises of the artist Tana Garrido Ruiz. For her, it is not a question of visibilising the conflict of what Donna Haraway called naturecultures a few decades ago, but of stirring up their pieces so that something different emerges from the threshold. This innocent shaking up is nevertheless forced to confront one of the most visible structures of modernity: the capitalist regime of images, which has the power to replace the subject in its relational capacity.​ 

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Laura Vallés Vílchez

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With: Delfina Ruiz Fernández, Lola Bernal Armengol, Ana Ávila, Jacinto Fandós, Fernando Garrido Montoya, Rosa Fernández Diáz, Cristina Leralta, Rosa March, Atanás Nikolaev Kehayov, Verónica Tapia, Natalia Álvarez, Izar Garrido, Alba Pérez Fernández, María Niubo Caselles, Iria Fernández Niubo, Melisa Martínez Oliva, Marilén Ases, Javier Gaitán Nekkebroek, Ariel Bonilla. Editing: Pablo Jurado Solano. Interactive development: Daniel Balboa Navarro. CGI (Model House): Desiré Quevedo Nieto. CGI (Objects): Alberto Ibáñez. Sound: Marisol Cao Milán. Music: Iván Blanco. Accompaniment: Belén Cerezo. Colour correction: Guillermo Etchemendi. Design: Ana Civera. Laboratory: Andec. Acknowledgements: Pablo Lambertos, Ximo Ortega, Ángel Polo, Antía Lousada, Raquel Planas, David Cantarero, Editorial Blume, Revista Integral.