Fran Orallo + Noel Molloy
April 16 - 29, 2023
“iceberg” + “nearby beach” by Fran Orallo
Above still from “iceberg”
Above still from “nearby beach”
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
Climate change is a reality, and it affects millions of people all over the world. One of the consequences of climate change is the rising of seawater due to a combination of meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets and the thermal expansion of seawater as it warms. As the ocean and the atmosphere continue to warm, water levels will continue to rise. How much depends mostly on the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, emitted into the atmosphere and the subsequent warming. How fast depends mostly on the rate of glaciers and ice sheets melting. Iceberg consists of the fixed shot sequence of the word future written in ice, little by little the word is melting, as a metaphor for what is happening in all the glaciers around the world. The title, Iceberg, also refers to the magnitude of the problem, because with climate change, we are only seeing a small portion of the total magnitude of the problem, as is the case with icebergs.
Another consequence of climate change is the rising of seawater due to a combination of meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets and the thermal expansion of seawater as it warms. As the ocean and the atmosphere continue to warm, water levels will continue to rise. How much depends mostly on the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, emitted into the atmosphere and the subsequent warming. How fast depends mostly on the rate of glaciers and ice sheets melting. The video consists in a series of video-collages in which the sea has invaded different places around the world, creating a succession of beaches in the middle of the city. Each collage is a metaphor for what could happen if we keep warming our planet by using fossil fuels.
About the artist:
Fran Orallo (Badajoz, Spain 1979). He lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied art at UPV, Valencia, Spain, and currently, he is studying New Media Art at City of Glasgow College, Glasgow, Scotland. His work focuses on experimentation with video and animation. Through the relationship between image and identity. He has exhibited his work both in Spain and abroad, participating in biennials, collective exhibitions, and festivals in more than 40 countries. His work has been screened in public and private institutions such as IVAN (Valencia, Spain), Vostell Malpartida Museum (Cáceres, Spain), MAC- Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago de Chile (Chile), La Neomudejar (Madrid Spain), Centro del Carmen (Valencia, Spain), Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City, Mexico), Kyrgyz National Fine Arts Museum (Bishkek. Kirghizistan), biennials such as The Wrong Biennale, (Copenhagen, Denmark), VI SIART International Art Biennial (Bolivia), and in fairs and festivals such as arteBA'10 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Under The Subway Video Art Night (New York), FILE (Brazil), Madatac (Madrid, Spain) or FIVA (Argentina) among others.
“IRISH SKY August 4 2022” by Noel Molloy
Above still from “IRISH SKY August 4 2022”
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
“A slice of Irish sky a minute moment and minute part of the vast cosmos- meaning universe. Cosmos often simply means "universe". But the word is generally used to suggest an orderly or harmonious universe, as it was originally used by Pythagoras in the 6th century B.C. Thus, a religious mystic may help put us in touch with the cosmos, and so may a physicist.”
Tell us about yourself. How did you come to be an artist in video/digital media?
“I am a visual and performance artist and use video and sound in my performance so I developed my video work to compliment and expand my performance work.”