Circunvalación externa (Outer ring road), is a two-channel video installation in which the same image is repeated in two places. It refers to ring roads in cities that connect different urban and suburban areas (center-periphery), the scenes in the installation explore diverse contexts of contemporary cities. The same image is seen in two different places, two very different domestic indoors. A television displays an image for no one,as the two places are empty. The only character that does appear in the image is absorbed by it, in what we might call the “inner image”, he is alone and records himself. The action of the character is dotted with some other images that show empty cities in which automation still work, but in use for no one. At times we see some people, but the texture of the image, from other times, states that they belong to the universe of remembrance and memory.
The project consists of two scenes, as an open sentence in which the narrative structure is shown dispersed in the image and its context. We always see through something, the image is thus defined by its surrounding as a medium capable of destabilizing, changing, neutralizing it.
The “inner image” appears twice, the two indoor spaces where it appears are two type of homes, one seems to belong more to the urban periphery and the other one seems more bourgeois or stable. The action appears as frozen in the two spaces, in the objects and the activity of inhabitants that are gone, but whose footprints cast possible interpretations of what we see.