Video Works
Video Works
Selections from the Artists of Future Fair Online
Suburbia Contemporary, Granada & Florence
Bonolo Kavula
Born in Kimberley, South Africa Bonolo Kavula works and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. She obtained a BA(FA) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art (University of Cape Town) majoring in Printmaking in 2014.
Kavula creates a new art persona in the video piece titled, Messy, which is featured in the Zeitz MOCAA exhibition The Main Complaint. Her name is “Black Mona Lisa”. She is a rap artist but prefers to call herself a rap visual artist because she is a painter too. The work is a music video where Black Mona Lisa makes her debut as a solo artist and rap artist. Her voice is unapologetic and brave and very candour. “Black Mona Lisa” as a character is expressing her confidence in not only her craft as an artist but also having fun while doing so. She expresses her black female sexuality with freedom knowing she is being watched and heard. — Zeitz MOCAA, Capetown
new discretions, new york
Gabriela Vainsencher
Gabriela Vainsencher
Negative Capacity, 2016
Duration 8:29
This work started from the soundtrack: an audio-collage, which I created out of recordings of conversations I had with my mother, a Uruguayan psychoanalyst who lives in Israel, over the course of one year. I cut and rearranged her words, sometimes creating a new sentence out of many disparate ones, sometimes leaving whole minutes untouched. I even made a song out of her “ehh”s and “uh”s. What remains is a monologue that turned out to be equally about her process as an analyst and mine as an artist. The title of the work refers to the words Keats used to describe Shakespeare’s genius, and which psychoanalytical theorist Wilfred Bion borrowed to describe the analyst’s single most important ability- to be able to exist in a state of not-knowing, in order to arrive at a deeper understanding.
alberta pane gallery, paris
ROMINA DE NOVELLIS
Romina De Novellis, Gradiva, 2017
Colour video full HD1920 x 1080, two channels of amplified mono sound
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In Romina De Novellis' work the body is at the centre of her performances, in which physical exhaustion is overcome in favour of an action that, like a sort of magnifying glass, aims to show some essential aspects of our existence. These tableaux vivants, which manifest themselves by the repetition of the gesture, intend to place the accent on time. The artist wishes to share a moment, if only an instant, with the public: a delicate but energetic incentive to move towards new paths and habits.
Gradiva is an existential and liberating journey through the remains of the Archeological Park of Pompeii, an awareness of the human condition; a ritual walk through the ruins of Pompeii with the massive Vesuvius in the background, accompanied by the sounds of the city of Naples that overlap the creaking of that cart dragged from sunset to dawn by the artist herself and on which a mold of her body rests.
Curator: Léa Bismuth
Produced by Labanque Art Center Béthune, with the support of the Archeological Parc of Pomepi, Parc Archéologique de Pompéi, Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Kreemart, D.A.F.NA gallery, Alberta Pane gallery.
Romina De Novellis, Arachne, a women’s march towards the South, to the limits of Europe, 2018
Curator: Mylène Ferrand
With the support of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and of SIAE, as part of the “Sillumina-copia privata per i giovani, per la cultura” initiative, Lastation, Ramdom, Kreemart
This women’s march took place on 10 June 2018, as an artistic and symbolic action aimed at leading the inhabitants of the Salento region, in Southern Italy, to reflect upon recovering ‘tarantismo' as the phenomenon of rebellion, through a contemporary reading of the ritual and the symbolism of that land. Participation was low – attendance totalled about twenty women – but the participants stayed together for the approximately 60 Km.
Arachne was not just a conceptual exercise, but it was also a participatory and active observation, an anthropological reading of the contemporary “tarantate” in the perspective of an Italy crushed between Europe and the Mediterranean. This observation includes the social, cultural, and political dynamics into which the Salento and its women inevitably insert themselves.
The Arachne march was not the need for a protest or for women’s claims, but the attempt to start from extreme conditions, from conditions of exclusion, to leave a trace of the present: the question of gender, women, migrants, and religious traditions that limit the osmosis among cultures, remain subjects of discussion and of exclusion in Mediterranean societies.
Romina De Novellis, #chezmaddalena, 2020
This video has been realized in the context of Romina De Novellis’ performative-project #chezmaddalena conceived and realized during the quarantine period.
About this work the artist said: "I took the opportunity to use my project of projections that I have been doing every night since the confinement in Paris to screen my family's selfie on the wall of the building opposite to my daughter’ room. I then filmed the projection and added the text to the editing. The sentences are in English, Italian and French: they are quotations, sentences, thoughts, definitions extracted from various documents, works and texts.I am an Italian performing artist, but I have lived in Paris for many years. Unfortunately in both countries art is the least of our governments' problems.”
bitforms, new york
SARA LUDY
Sara Ludy Sky Lapis, 2018 Video (color silent), media player, screen Dimensions variable, landscape orientation 6 min, loop Edition of 1, 1 AP
Sky Lapis is a digital animation from the ongoing series Clouds (2011 - present) by Sara Ludy. This series of work pushes the constraints of computer imaging software to evoke natural phenomena via animated painting. Through glassy textures and interwoven forms, Sky Lapis calls to the amorphous landscapes found in Ludy's oneiric environments.
bitforms, new york
QUAYOLA
Quayola Jardins d'Été #1, 2016 Video (color, sound), screen or projector, media player Dimensions variable, landscape orientation 43 min 12 sec, loop Edition of 6, 2 AP
An homage to the the tradition of French Impressionism and the late works of Claude Monet, Jardins d'Été investigates the ways in which nature is observed, studied, and synthesized with and through technology. The gardens at the Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire serve as a point of departure, as Quayola employs an extensive technological apparatus to represent and abstract floral landscapes. Filmed at night with high winds, precise movement is transformed into gestural motion, composition, and color schemes, emulating impressionistic brushstrokes.
bitforms, new york
clemant valla
Clement Valla Video Wallpaper #1, 2019 Video (color, silent), screen or projector Dimensions variable, portrait orientation 29 min 10 sec, loop Edition of 6, 1 AP
Video Wallpaper #1 inverts the typical relationship between the picture plane and landscape. Here rocks scanned from Shingle Creek, Utah; Devil's Den Preserve, Connecticut; Bear Mountain, New York; and Hunter Island, New York are projected as images onto a flat surface. In this environment, a simulated canvas is dragged across scans of rocky outcroppings, ledges, and rock faces. The resulting videos abandon perspective—the video becomes a slow 1:1 translation of the surface of the rock onto the surface of the screen through the intermediary of a simulated soft, yielding picture plane.
