© Lorena Amorós · 2015
THE VIEWING
Video Sculptural Installation. Variable measures. 2007-2008.
THE VIEWING is a video-sculptural installation that celebrates the film Vampyr (1931) by C.T. Dreyer and also appropriates the title of one of the projects of Bob Flanagan, Sick. The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997, Kirby Dick).
The piece offers some thoughts on deliberate play poetically established between the image of the "subject" allegedly found inside the coffin, and the image that the viewer observes externally . As stated by Emmanuel Levinas, the relationship with our death implies not knowing the fact of dying, such “not knowing”, however, doesn't imply an absence of relationship." A "not knowing" that perhaps, precisely because we find it attractive and inaccessible, drives us to fantasize about possible ways to approach it. At this point, The Viewing tries to give presence to the ritual of death in reality and in our (continually suppressed) thoughts, while reconsidering the absence of the "physicality " and the trail left by the work in both the viewer and the author.Installation exhibited at:
2008. ARCO. "LA ESCENA DEL CRIMEN. [HUELLAS INQUIETANTES Y OTRAS HISTORIAS]", proyecto comisariado por Fernando Castro para el pabellón de la Región de Murcia. Madrid.
2010. “RELIQUIAS DES-ENTRAÑABLES”. Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia (MUBAM). Murcia.
2010-2011. "CARTOGRAFÍAS DE LA CREATIVIDAD. 100% VALENCIANOS”. Centro del Carmen, Valencia; Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo (República Dominicana); y Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV) de La Habana (Cuba).
2015. “TEATRO ANATÓMICO”. Palacete Dr. Ângelo da Fonseca (Casa do ex-Governo Civil de Coimbra). Coimbra, Portugal.
