De la Ofelia del Sena y otras desconocidas by Lucía Pizzani (Venezuela)
Sic Transit by Manuel Saiz (Spain)
The only Evil by Zoé T. Vizcaíno (Mexico)
Lucía Pizzani (Venezuela)
De la Ofelia del Sena y otras desconocidas shows women's bodies sinking into the water. The artist brings the tragic case of "the unknown woman of the Seine" to the present time, to refer to all those anonymous women who followed the same fate.
Master of Fine by Chelsea College of Art and Design. London, UK. She has exhibited extensively in her native country. In 2013 she received the first prize at the XII Eugenio Mendoza Award, awarded by the Sala Mendoza in Caracas. She currently lives in London and her work has been seen in Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, UK, Lambert Contemporary London, UK, Pinta London, Queens Museum in New York and Molaa Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles, among others.
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Manuel Saiz (Spain)
Sic transit, shot on the banks of the Tiber, picks up a group of people that run sequentially towards the camera. On arrival, at the time of maximum exhaustion, each participant reads a message on the creation, art and culture. Then, they leave before the next one comes in.
Manuel Saiz currently resides in Berlin. Since the mid-80s he has exhibited his work in galleries and museums around the world. Since 1995 he has focused on video and video installations. His work has been screened at numerous film and video art festivals, such as Impakt (Utrecht), VideoLisboa (Lisboa), Videoex (Zurich), Kurz Int Film Fest (Hamburg), Transmediale (Berlin), etc. Among his noteworthy samples Specialized Technicians Required in Moriarty Gallery (Madrid), Nominal Politics in T1 +2 (London) and the East End Academy exhibitions in Whitechapel (London) and Save the Day in Kuntsbuero (Vienna).
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Zoé T. Vizcaíno (Mexico)
The only Evil is a work that shows the process of boiling water while listening to an audio excerpt from one of the video diaries by Jonas Mekas as part of his "365 Day Project".
MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture at National Museum of Contemporary Art Reina Sofia (Madrid). She currently resides in Spain. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as La Casa de Velázquez, Eva Ruiz Gallery, Matadero and Círculo de Bellas Artes, among others.
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Organization.- Laura Turégano, Directora Adjunta, Centro Rey Juan Carlos I de España (NYU)
Curated by.- Eva Mendoza Chandas.
