Centauro

Produced in Buenos Aires with the support of Fundación PROA and presented for the first time at The Parliament of Marmots, the video on show focuses on the mythological figure of the centaur: a creature that hybridises the body of a horse with the torso of a human being. The camera lens focuses on the nervous, restrained movements of the tamed animal: its muscles clench and its joints flex. The screen, suspended from the ground, allows viewing from both sides, thus including the audience in the image and making them part of the hybrid state, between reality and fiction, between the human and the animal. The statuesque, out-of-scale body of the animal becomes an abstraction, an epidermal landscape, a moving mountain that floats without ever resting on the ground. (text by Marta Papini)