Homeland 2022 Master (AW2)
For the past nine years, Homelands has lived up to its name and its remit, welcoming original film and video artworks from all over the world, each of them exploring the nature of home and community, what it means to have or not have a home ‘land’ but also what it means to be human. This year artists also had the theme of 'Through Light and Shade' to respond to. The isolation wrought by the pandemic is visible in many of the entries, achieved through highly original computer-realized imagery, distorted, layered, glaring and interwoven as well as live performance and sometimes a stylized mix of the two.
For the past nine years, Homelands has lived up to its name and its remit, welcoming original film and video artworks from all over the world, each of them exploring the nature of home and community, what it means to have or not have a home ‘land’ but also what it means to be human.
This year artists also had the theme of 'Through Light and Shade' to respond to. The isolation wrought by the pandemic is visible in many of the entries, achieved through highly original computer-realized imagery, distorted, layered, glaring and interwoven as well as live performance and sometimes a stylized mix of the two.
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Elisabet Mabres
Title of Film: See & to be seen
Length and Year: 9’ (2017)
Artist Statement, Project
A masked woman shows herself amid the density of the most populated part of Hong
Kong. She interacts with whoever dares to look at her. Some pretend not to see her, some
can sense her, someone gets scared or rejects her…The mask has become old, making it
seem less artificial.
Protected by facial latex, the woman exhibits herself. Both in the streets and indoors, both
day and night. The interference of meeting the ‘cage dwellers’ perturbs her to the point of
yielding to domination and captivity.
She manages to escape towards the new green territories of the unknown Hong Kong,
searching through traces of abandoned lives. It is now she who rummages with her eyes.
And the found objects, from ancestral China, reveal to her the need to carry other actions
in Shanghai.
Nothing ends, everything goes on…Elisabet Mabres.
Credits
Idea, Direction, Editing: Elisabet Mabres
Attendant: Ramon Antich
About the artist
Elisabet Mabres lives and works in Barcelona.
Graduated in Fine Arts, in the specialty of painting, she has freely experimented with all
graphic and three-dimensional resources, being in the installation and the sculpture where
she began to use the image and the text. With more than thirty years of international and
national exhibitions, it is in the last twelve years that Mabres has focused exclusively on
photography and video, transcending her plastic origins.
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