CINCO RETRATOS
Dezember 29, 2023 von Karen | Keine Kommentare
von Gabriela Alcofra und Billy Cowie
Vernissage: Sonntag, 28. 1. 2024 um 15:00 Uhr
Finissage: 25. 2. 2024 um 15:00
Öffnungszeiten: Sonntags 15:00 bis 18:00 Uhr
und nach Vereinbarung 0152 09425100
‘Cinco Retratos’ [Five Portraits] is a twenty-two minute black and white looping installation made by Gabriela Alcofra and Billy Cowie, completed in 2023. It investigates the possibility of shared territory between fine art portraiture, early film and dance. Each of the portraits uses a single projected photograph superimposed on the face of Gabriela, magically transforming her into five distinct characters. Her micro-choreographed facial movements produce a variety of effects as the projected and real features move in and out of sync with each other. When aligned the composite images appear almost normal but when misaligned take on extreme distortions reminiscent of Francis Bacon portraits and Cubist imagery. The sequences explore ideas of feminine beauty, emotional expression through facial movement, and the concept of perception flipping (where the brain jumps back and forth between two interpretations of an image as happens often in optical illusions).
This presentation at Kronenboden will be the world premiere of the complete work.