Interview

What was the first art/design/architecture work that impressed you?

I remember a journey to Figures in the north of Spain to see the Theatre-Museum of Salvador Dali. I was impressed by atmosphere of the whole space and the dreamlike feeling inside the building. I was ten years old at that time.

How do you reflect on light as a material or media in your work?

When I'm filming onsite, the light defines the intensity of the instant. It creates a modulation in the character of the images. As a hunter, I work waiting for the right moment of light. Usually that allows me around one or two hours of filming per day.

And when I install the videos in a space, the projected images arrive from the darkness. Both, the taking and projecting, is created in the juxtaposition of darkness and light.

What was the guiding interest in your conceptual approach of your work we see during GLOW?

As an artist I try to live a shamanic experience in each project I develop. "The shipwreck of mankind" was filmed in a salt desert in Bolivia. During the wet season, the Salar de Uyuni becomes a lake and as it is 4.000 m above the sea. The reflection of light creates an environment different from our known realities. I'm interested in the cosmogony relationship between universe and human being. As a political statement, I work with ancient communities who are living in the state of emergency.

"Exposed to the erosion of time,
they vanish into the emptiness.

In silence and isolation,
they are testimony of an existence which,
in disappearing, becomes a declaration of principles.”

"What made it interesting to work in Eindhoven?

It will be the first time that I have the opportunity to install my work in an open space. Actually, it is an exciting experience for myself.

What kind of respond do you expect from the audience?

I like the idea to create interrogation thoughts that expand in different directions.