SOLA is a video game that embodies the climate of tension, discomfort and fear that can be experienced while walking alone at night in cities where gender-based violence is embedded in everyday life. SOLA challenges the usual understanding of games as a source for entertainment and it builds on the concept of play to explore a video game as an instrument for conceptual thinking and a tool to work through social issues.
Don Federico is an experimental video that, in a simple but troubling way, reveals how the naturalization of violence can be transmitted by cultural expressions. Through the juxtaposition of diverse images, Don Federico invites the viewer to reflect on the naturalization of gender-based violence while making visible how everyday actions, embedded in education and the family environment, may contribute to the naturalization of gender-based violence. In a truly simple and efficient way, this video piece illustrates one of the many ways in which cultural expressions can support a system that naturalizes violence. It is a structure where killing a woman, chopping her into little pieces and cooking her in a frying pan is seen as a joke.
Through an atmosphere filled with haunting motionlessness and an eerie fragility, this artwork reflects on the aftereffects of trauma and the strength and resistance of the body. CUERPOS proposes a dialogue between the body and a landscape in order to explore trauma as an invisible wound that affects body and the space around us.
Trauma is a scar on memory. What happens on the surface of the earth is closely connected to what happens underground. It is a profound rupture in everyday life, attacking the self from the outside, impacting its surface and tearing its skin. Trauma is an inherited wound that builds subterranean psychological states, making the solid footage uncertain and occasionally causing the earth above to collapse.
Untitled_Space. This video installation captures the life of abandoned body-objects in public spaces.
“Unspeakable and unrepresentable forms of degradation and violation: tortured and maimed bodies discarded in public spaces, rape and sexual mutilation: disfigurement and desecration of female bodies” Feminicide defined by Rosa Linda Fregoso
Piel (2010) explores an embodied transformation, how does our skin remember time and experience? This video installation was created in collaboration with Marina Garcia.
Director of Photography & Camera: Martín Benchimol / Assistants: Celeste Contratti, Ignacio Cattaneo, David Valverdi, Patricio Montalbetti / María Virginia Pioli