Ximena Velásquez Sánchez
La contemplación. 2009
Video, 44'51"
The figure of the traveller, central to 19th-century landscape painting, is evoked in this video. The artist seeks to resume the act of gratuitous contemplation, of sheer visual exploration, using a slow-moving plane in which only the natural light changes.
(From the short guide)
© Still: Ximena Velásquez Sánchez
Repro: Haupt & Binder
30 Sept. - 11 Dec. 2011, SESC Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil. Videos, performances, installations, objects, paintings, photographs, etc. by 101 artists. General curator: Solange Farkas. Part of the 17th SESC_Videobrasil International Contemporary Art Festival.