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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Francesca Llopis
Title of Film: White Tears
Length and Year: 8’10” (2018)
Artist Statement, Project
The artist explores the house of La Ricarda (or Casa Gomis, designed by Antoni
Bonet Castellana) as a kind of contemporary ruin, an oasis of beauty and culture in an
environment devoured by the noise and pollution of the planes from the nearby airport.
In honour of its history as a refugee for avant-garde music in the 1960s and 70s, Llopis
celebrates a dance that is both exorcism and carnal union, featuring music by composer
Barbara Held. Between mystery and humour; dreams and melancholy, the artist explores,
with love, the walls, gardens, lattices and furniture of this fascinating work of architecture
and landscape. Something akin to nymphs, like shadows, seeds or rivers of ink, embrace
and merge with architecture; drawing it, tracing it, interpreting it. In this way, the house is
once again inhabited and reveals its quality as a poetic artifact, showing that nature and
artifice can coexist with meaning and joy.
Credits
Directing/Edit: Francesca Llopis, Sound: Barbara Held.
About the artist
Frascesca Llopis creative universe developed from the early 1980s through different techniques
and formats, from painting and design to installation, photography and video art. Born in
Barcelona where she lives. She enrolled at Escola Eina to study painting and the poetics of
space. 1981: 1st artist residency in Palatz Culturi in Warsaw where the foreseeable coup d’etat
transforms her pictorial world. This was the turning point where the “journey” became a
central element in her artistic process. 1988: residency in the Académia di Roma and l’Écolle
des Beaux Arts de Nimes. Arnau Puig defines her painting as “semanticized constructivism”.
1989: 6.8.89 Tiananment was 1rst intervention in the public space of Hospitalet in Barcelona,
where she dug a ditch as a tribute to the Chinese students, with the collaboration of sound
artist Barbara Held. 1999: Mal.laltes D’amor in Lübeck (Germany). 2002: 2 Habitacions Amb
Vistes, a social portrait of Barcelona. 2004: ETC, a reflection on the absence of women artists
in the history of art. 2015: Noseden Biennale, Japan, with the video installation Memòria Per
Un Iceberg as an archaeologist of the future and the installation Llibre De Llàgrimes (book
of tears). 2016: SakaiArtePorto, Japan, performance Traction Action. Llum! In the Montjuïc
Castle in Barcelona, Spain. 2018: Insektament Errants, gallery J. Naranjo. “Ajardina’t”, Picasso
Museum BIGDRAW and “Mediterranean Garden” (video monograph) at the Lumen gallery in
Kyoto. 2019: LLUMbarcelona festival, video installation “and you, what would you put under the
focus? 2020: Infiltrada at the Calders Bookshop, Barcelona and installs all his workbooks. 2021:
Dins Per Dins, MNAC (National Museum Catalan Art) she was part of ARTICS magazine and
between 1996-2020 she publishes the artist books Embolic Magnífic, Duc Una Ciutat Al Cap,
Duc Un Cuc Al Cap, Gotescauen, Secrets, Infiltrada, Etc.
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