Paisaje Interior con Marina [Interior Landscape with Seascape] is a work that develops from a 3-part system, in which space and images are associated in order to originate a new sensorial experience. As the artist explains: “In a first operation, sound is separated from the image at a perceptive level. The first encounter is with the video’s sound that is part of the piece. We hear, then we see. A woman’s voice narrates the experiences of others as if they were her own.
The vision requires an effort and the video can only be seen through a hole in the wall. The second operation places the spectator as an actor who is watching, since in order to see, he needs to take his place in the mechanism and exhibit his condition. In the video, the voice we hear is embodied in 3 women, 3 actresses who are the same character. In their mutiplicity, they embody the shared body, the body that is part of a larger mechanism. Here, experiences and movements are synchronised, reaching positions in the mysterious interior space they occupy, presided over by a beautiful fireplace.
The third operation consists of adding a second space that appears as a form between a sculpture, a box and a model. The object has also a hole that is offered to the viewer, and inside it, we find the same video that we saw behind the wall, in the somehow compromised situation, that is peeping through the hole. This time, the video appears smaller and it offers itself to an hypothetical ideal visitor. The elegant model of a cinema places the spectator between 2 scales, forming part of a more complex apparatus. Is he looking or is he being looked at?