Jean-Michel Rolland + Fran Orallo + Yoel Peled
May 14 - May 27, 2023
“Traces:Ski” by Jean_Michel Rolland
Above stills from “Traces:Ski"
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
"Traces:Ski" uses the video found on the Internet of Jung Donghyun's run at the 2018 Olympics. Transformations operated on colors and speed hijack this documentary video to turn it into an abstract video artwork. Some shades are erased to allow persistent traces left by other colors. The skier no longer evolves on an ordinary ski slope but in a chaos of moving structures created from the movements of the camera. The soundtrack was a criterion in the choice of the initial material: in the absence of voice-over, the natural sounds of the descent, slowed down at the same speed as the image and enriched by several effects, contribute to the aesthetics of this détournement.”
Tell us about yourself. How did you come to be an artist in video/digital media?
“I’m a French artist born in 1972. A long time a musician and a painter, I brings together my two passions - the sound and the image - in digital arts since 2010. Through video artworks, generative art, audiovisual performances and interactive installations, I question the temporality, a genuine fourth dimension inherent to moving image, as well as the duality between my two favorite mediums, the sound and the visual. My formal research is guided by the desire to reveal the intrinsic nature of our perceptual environment and to twist it to better give new realities to the world around us.”
“re-brotes” by Fran Orallo
Above stills from “re-brotes”
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
“The title outbreaks come from the mental illness "schizophrenic outbreaks". This disease is characterized, among other things, by auditory and visual hallucinations, but there are endless other "small" symptoms, such as confusion and duplicity when it comes to understanding one's identity. In my work, I deal with this duplicity, misnamed “multiple personalities” with the intention of showing, as in a mirror, the identity of a confused individual. The audio is made up of a series of distorted whispers in order to reflect the auditory hallucinations that this type of patient suffers.”
Tell us about yourself. How did you come to be an artist in video / digital media?
Fran Orallo, born in Badajoz, Spain in 1979, now 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) and FIVA (Argentina) among others.
“Golden Fleece” by Yoel Peled
Tell us about the artwork you are submitting. What makes it unique?
The work presents the behind the scenes of the theater in 3D simulation, it brings up a strange show oftwo creatures. On the one hand, the space is being built, on the other hand, a show is going on in it. This meeting creates a broad view of the creative process.
Tell us about yourself. How did you come to be an artist in video/digital media?
I always had a relatively developed technical sense and during Corona I had to stay at home and create only from the computer. I saw this as an act of creation from the infinite toolbox of technology. Sleepless nights of creating in front of the flickering LED screen of the computer.