FLASHBULB
Instalación. Zapatos y vídeo 8' 23''
2010
Experiences we live and emotions we feel through these ones capture what, in a general way, we call memory, giving coherence to our life and consequently to our future. For that reason, the human being does his best everyday in the arduous task of keeping alive his memories.
Flashbulb contains that feeling. I edit and mount different films recorded with a Super 8 camera, daily scenes from 70,s and 80,s whose protagonists are children. All of us have childhood memories and the images that are shown, maybe because of image quality or because of the scenes; they have a romantic and close halo.
This video, which sound is the original one of the camera, is screened over on the object, I considered as representative of that period of life, children’s shoes. This object appears in the great imagination of those who saw themselves during first years of life with this fetish garment, appears, inherently in the most part of their photographs.
So I capture childhood memory using an object completely practical, and now thrown out, to giving it a “life”, screening images on it. As if the shoe shows us its useful life, through its own memories. The piece is called Flashbulb, making an allusion to a kind of memory through which the person remember something almost like a photograph, with a great abundance of details and with a great trust in the truthfulness of what is remembered.