Learning to Beat. Rhythmic Melancholy for a Continuous Present.

Francisco Ruiz de Infante

Video screening, with a number of performative expansions, and a conversation with Glòria Picazo.

During this session, conceived specifically for the occasion, the prolific Ruiz de Infante will set us off on a vision quest through the twists and turns of some of his audiovisual work from recent years, as well as an overview of the latest pathways his work has taken.

At the beginning of the presentation a multi-screen audiovisual device will be activated, which will run its course, leading us through an audiovisual experience in layers. The articulation of different videos and actions will explain the relationship between what we want to do and what actually gets done, what could have been and what is; ultimately, the intensely powerful vibration that separates desire from reality.

We will move, in a series of jumps, through times and spaces from different pieces in Ruiz de Infante’s career: from the thematic project Los Lobos [The Wolves] (1993-2001) to work from the series BlueSky (2005-2016) and hybrid forms, somewhere between video and performance, created in conjunction with Olga Mesa under the generic title Carmen / Shakespeare (2012-2018).

During the session we will be privy to a number of previously unseen pieces and various improbable remixes of key work from the artist’s career.

Bon voyage!

BIO

Beginning with his very first projects, like Hacia el agua [Toward the Water] for example, Ruiz de Infante creates visual experiences where the discursive lines between text, image and sound are crisscrossed in a dizzying way. In his work (as in life) spaces and times enter into friction, forgetfulness is a motor-trap, and desires (nearly, nearly, nearly) always become reality in order to highlight the distance between “what we think” and “what is”.

His work has been shown at important institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in Pars, the MNCA Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Blaffer Gallery in Houston, among others and it is included in international collections and media libraries, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the MNCA Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Organization

Associació Hamaca

Production

Arts Santa Mònica