FIVE ACTIONS WITH RED GLOVES

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FIVE ACTIONS WITH RED GLOVES is a work of mixed media on a 1.5 mt X 1.5 mt wooden board. The board was first decorated with starches on a painted surface, while the female image was digitally painted using a videostill as a reference. The image was then printed on canvas and “sewn” on the board with thumbtacks and a complicated weaving of red woolen thread. The red wool also becomes graphic decoration, recalling the idea of the game while covering the nakedness of the figure. On the panel are also fixed the red latex gloves that are the cornerstone of the videoperformance inspired by the painting. The videoperformance is contained in the disc attached to the belly of the female figure. The main concept of the work lies in this ongoing shift from analog to digital and back, like a needle going in and out while sewing a fabric. The idea is born from the desire to incorporate digital elements into an analog work. Digital media devices (DVDs, miniCDs) become original graphic elements once embedded in the work together with printed graphics, objects and paintings, but at the same time contain real digital video or photographs. The collector thus takes possession, together with the original work, of the only existing copy on physical media – duly authenticated – of a performative act in video or photo, that is the key to the understanding of the work itself.
The video contained in the disk which is embedded in the work, fixed on the belly of the female figure, is a dreamlike journey into the unconscious in which the female figure is doubled and splitted. There are a number of elements around which the performance develops: the red shiny latex gloves become a living matter that blends with the other red objects: the red wire, the plastic chair, the dress, the artwork on the background.
It ‘s a game of optical illusions and metamorphosis in which the space of the performance is continuously redrawn by the architecture of the movement and transformation of the color red in its various epiphanies: the aerial impalpable nature of the red wire, the solid state of the red plastic chair, the almost liquid nature of the red gloves and dress.