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- 2016 (Accumulation)
- 2014 (Creation)
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Video
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Research project dedicated to critical examination of contemporary culture and society through video. Founded in 1993 in post-Olympic Barcelona, emerging from La 12 Visual, an independent video association created by filmmakers including Nuria Canal, Joan Leandre, and Toni Serra. Since 1996 it has organized research projects and video screenings at the CCCB and MACBA. In 2004 its archives received the National Cultural Heritage Award from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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There are many protagonists in this video: the woods, above all, and different types of animals, natural light effects, installations by various artists (these were installed along the pathway in a Piedmont Valley in the North West of Italy as a result of a production of material in the field occurred during the project “La collera delle lumache” (The Snails’ Wrath), the stream, the sky, and other landscapes. Each of these elements, from time to time, can ‘take over the scene’ of Soglie (Thresholds), becoming the momentary protagonist of the work, totally without any pre-established hierarchies. An intangible entity that was possible to document only by evoking it with this composition of images and sounds, all of which are absolutely authentic and not treated in any way during post-production. One could define Soglie (Thresholds) as an epic of the events of those days, that which was seen by the invisible eyes of the woods and narrated by the forest itself. I repeatedly dreamed of it over the long term that I devoted myself to the choice of images and sounds, and to their transformation, and now tell my dream to everyone who sees this video work.
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Press: Yes; Catalogue: Yes; Itinerancies: Yes; Online archive: Yes; Television: Yes
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Països: Italy
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- Alessandro Quaranta (Accumulator)
- Alessandro Quaranta (Subject)
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Catalan
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Latin