Pell negra, màscares blanques. Trinomials of the Form

Trinomials of the Form proposes a dialogue between two historical pieces from Archive 94-20 and a short contemporary piece produced by the Observatori de Vídeo No Identificat. This triple relationship functions as a node of recontextualisation and reconsideration: it seeks to recover meanings preserved in one of the project's archives, to stage them from the present and to open up new interpretations, while stimulating the Observatory's current production and reinforcing its dimension as an authorial project.

There are images that are not in the past because they have not finished happening. They return, are reprinted, reappear with other tones, but with the same open wound. The archive does not sleep: It looks straight ahead and forces us to hold its gaze. In this contrast, the origin of a world that we still inhabit becomes visible.

The images do not narrate a closed event: they point to persistence. Gestures, faces, words, territories observed and defined from outside. The border is not a line: it is a constant operation, a way of ordering space, bodies and belongings. What seems to be past does not return as a quotation, but as a structure.

When accumulation reaches its limit, the discourse is exhausted. The image stops counting and starts to weigh. Sense does not advance: it stops, is suspended.

Then the sound appears. Not for responding, but for opening up. Music does not contradict conflict: it goes through it from somewhere else. Listening opens a crack in the order. There, for an instant, we cease to be a territory of control and become a sensitive surface.

Between the harshness of the contrast and the fragility of the gesture, this session proposes a silent transition.

From the force that imposes to the experience that resists. Not to close the wound, but to inhabit it.

To let something persist where language no longer reaches and where the present barely dares to beat from within.

The Devil, 8 min, Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2012, France (VOSE), "You don't know what we are".

Natives, 25 min, Jesse Lerner, Scott Sterling, 1991, USA (VOSE).

The United States has long maintained its reputation as a haven for immigrants; however, also traditional has been North American autochthonism that seeks to exclude immigrants. The current decade has seen a new upsurge in these anti-immigration sentiments. This film examines the discourse of autochthonism in the early 1990s, especially in relation to the US-Mexico border as a space in which many of these issues can be observed.

Clara Peya (live improvisation for the project L'Antisol Negre), 7 min, Vincent Moon, 2024, Barcelona.

A sensitive hole in time, like a rabbit hole in Alice's world, runs through the black and white keys and the lines of the tattoos. Sprain in the transparencies of Catalan Art Nouveau architecture and its blue stained glass windows and columns of flowers, like a changed urban utopia, calling for a finally liberated use.

Activity curated by Observatori de Vídeo No Identificat - Desorg Punt Org

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