GOLDSMITHS | MFA 2020

Esther Gatón



blue fire
blue fire assembles excerpts from videos downloaded from YouTube, articulating them in a chain of fascinations by: fluid shapes, by the 'unnaturalness' of the color blue, explosions, or moving devices. The video equates different scenarios showing, not so much their particular cases, but the similarities between them; which have to do with rhythm, gestures, vibrations, applause, or rattle. Thus, the five minutes build a collective form, which as such includes inertia, contradictions and silences. As it´s all material downloaded from YouTube, the images have not been viewed directly, but consist of displacements of what was experienced; remnants of other people's experiences. The confinement process has increased and accelerated questions that our generation was already asking. blue fire is concern with those that have to do with the screen as an entity with an agency, in which to act directly.
Video, 2020

blue fire
blue fire assembles excerpts from videos downloaded from YouTube, articulating them in a chain of fascinations by: fluid shapes, by the 'unnaturalness' of the color blue, explosions, or moving devices. The video equates different scenarios showing, not so much their particular cases, but the similarities between them; which have to do with rhythm, gestures, vibrations, applause, or rattle. Thus, the five minutes build a collective form, which as such includes inertia, contradictions and silences. As it´s all material downloaded from YouTube, the images have not been viewed directly, but consist of displacements of what was experienced; remnants of other people's experiences. The confinement process has increased and accelerated questions that our generation was already asking. blue fire is concern with those that have to do with the screen as an entity with an agency, in which to act directly.
Video, 2020