LA IMPOSIBILIDAD DE ATRAPAR UNA NUBE
Audiovisual essay
HD Video
11' 20''
2020
In the novel Kassel does not invite to logic, Enrique Vila-Matas rambles on the artistic panorama, the “lost in translation”, the free interpretation and mentions the figure of the clouds twice. One of the comments that attracted me the most was the following:
The subject of the clouds was actually exhausted by a friend of mine from Barcelona, who one day found himself next to me in the cinema watching white little clouds crossing behind the Capitol of Washington in a film by Otto Preminger. I never saw anyone more focused on one of the millions of useless facts of the past, never anyone in a movie theater so immobilized, so still, so literally in the clouds as my friend was that day.
From the whole book I decided to keep the most banal and useless data. And, in my case, I wanted to take uselessness to the extreme: I wanted to catch a cloud.
This image and text composition starts from the romantic idea of catching a cloud to finally question the complex relation we develop with some specific materialities that can be seen but never touched.
LA IMPOSIBILIDAD DE ATRAPAR UNA NUBE
Audiovisual essay
HD Video
11' 20''
2020
In the novel Kassel does not invite to logic, Enrique Vila-Matas rambles on the artistic panorama, the “lost in translation”, the free interpretation and mentions the figure of the clouds twice. One of the comments that attracted me the most was the following:
The subject of the clouds was actually exhausted by a friend of mine from Barcelona, who one day found himself next to me in the cinema watching white little clouds crossing behind the Capitol of Washington in a film by Otto Preminger. I never saw anyone more focused on one of the millions of useless facts of the past, never anyone in a movie theater so immobilized, so still, so literally in the clouds as my friend was that day.
From the whole book I decided to keep the most banal and useless data. And, in my case, I wanted to take uselessness to the extreme: I wanted to catch a cloud.
This image and text composition starts from the romantic idea of catching a cloud to finally question the complex relation we develop with some specific materialities that can be seen but never touched.