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Youth Art Laboratory (LAB) opens today at 20:30 hours, the video installation 'Oblivion Society', the latest creation of Araceli Martinez, Pavilion autopsy room, the old hospital morgue Marine Cartagena.
Murcia The artist develops his work with the mechanisms of the art audiovisual and displays a series of subjects, facing the camera or viewer, a word drawn on his skin, act to erase the obsessions that can not be detached in the everyday.
This gesture is documented by the artist and displays the video format.
This video installation is included within the activities organized by the LAB, under the Youth Institute.
The City of Cartagena and Cartagena Puerto de Culturas have collaborated in the launching of this exhibition, as well as strengthen and promote those manifestations of emerging contemporary art.
One of the goals of 'Oblivion Society "is to analyze the context and history of the city where the person lives influences their choice.
Until now, at this intervention, have been recorded over two hundred people in different European cities.
It has been held in Murcia, Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona, as well as in Turin and Berlin.
The installation shows two projections on the dome and six plasma screens.
The speech acoustics, sound art composition artist's work also contributes to the development of the piece.
In assembling the video, Martinez has respected the time that each person uses to perform the action, but later reverses the narrative of the image and the word appears again and deleted earlier thus creates a space for reflection.
Many participants have chosen to install personal names, dates of deaths of family or personal feelings that are collective.
People of different age, race, sex and nationality choose the same words as obsessively want to forget, which can function as an exercise in awareness of what one wants to forget, working out like a catharsis of the concerns of the contemporary.
Source: CARM
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