Chapinero and San Felipe
Exhibitions in Chapinero and San Felipe, in the north of the city, during the Month of the Art 2014 in Bogotá.
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Video and installation in the small auditorium of FLORA.
Last winter, the artist climbed the Olseva mountain in the border between Slovenia and Austria to reach the prehistoric cave Potocka zijalka. His idea was to shoot a single roll of 16mm film- starting with a white frame and ending with a black frame. The artist filmed a person entering the cave and disappearing in the darkness.
Four months after, Putrih was invited to the Oberhausen film festival. Instead of screening the film, he decided to stage a collective performance: he gave a negative roll of the film to the public. More than 300 people touched and inspected the film. The artist scanned this damaged film and edited it with documentation of the action. This is the film currently presented at FLORA’s auditorium.
Putrih took a photograph of the entrance of the cave from inside, where the opening looks like a giant eye, and took this shape as the starting point for one of his processes of translation/formal progression. This irregular form ends up becoming the sides of the auditorium, which now resembles a cave. A warm light, synchronized with the film, completes the installation.
(From a text of FLORA)
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Exhibitions in Chapinero and San Felipe, in the north of the city, during the Month of the Art 2014 in Bogotá.