WORKS
Only a Truncated and Imaginary Vision
2019
This piece is part of the project Fragments from Algiers that investigates the first Third World Filmmakers Meeting, held in Algiers in 1973. A still of the Sahara desert, found in the filmmakers archive, is projected through a peephole, looming in the exhibition room. The projection is accompanied by a sound composition by the artist that combines distinct calls of cicada species from around the globe. The sound piece uses the cicada call metaphorically, as a symbol of generational awakening after dormancy, pointing to the international movement of solidarity among the Third World, while denoting also the sound of a film projector.
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Carmen Amengual, Only a Truncated and Imaginary Vision, Digital projection.
Only a Truncated and Imaginary Vision
2019
This piece is part of the project Fragments from Algiers that investigates the first Third World Filmmakers Meeting, held in Algiers in 1973. A still of the Sahara desert, found in the filmmakers archive, is projected through a peephole, looming in the exhibition room. The projection is accompanied by a sound composition by the artist that combines distinct calls of cicada species from around the globe. The sound piece uses the cicada call metaphorically, as a symbol of generational awakening after dormancy, pointing to the international movement of solidarity among the Third World, while denoting also the sound of a film projector.
This installation was presented in 2019 at Biquini Wax ESP, in Mexico City in Only a Truncated and Imaginary Vision, organized by Kirsten Mairead Gill.
Carmen Amengual, Only a Truncated and Imaginary Vision, Digital projection.
Installation view, Biquini Wax ESP, in Mexico City, 2019
Carmen Amengual, Cicadas # 1: Mirage - Haunting. Sound, 56 min. 2019
(5 min. excerpt)
Carmen Amengual, Only a Truncated and Imaginary Vision, Digital projection.
Installation view, Biquini Wax ESP, in Mexico City, 2019
