LONGED FOR LANDSCAPES
Portland, England 2011 Mixed media Project
Videoinstallation video mapping on carved stones
LONGED FOR LANDSCAPES es un proyecto realizado durante la Residencia Artística en Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust, Dorset, England. Cristina sintetiza todo el proceso de aprendizaje, investigación y desarrollo realizado durante el periodo de estancia en Portland, culminando en una propuesta interdisciplinar que explora, a través del paisaje jurásico de las canteras, la roca como materia y la industria de la isla, conceptos como la conciencia universal entorno a preceptos medioambientales de demanda y uso del territorio.
Tiempo, espacio, geología, relatividad, existencia se intercalan en los procesos de erosión, fosilización y transformación constante del paisaje, llevándonos a través de imaginarios colectivos a la idea de Vanitas, y la comprensión de la posición humana en este proceso geológico global e infinito.
Esta residencia y proyecto es el resultado de la Beca Antón de Ayuda a la Creación Escultórica en su edición de 2010, patrocinada por la Fundación HC Energía. La exposición se configura como un proyecto multidisciplinar específico que trabaja el concepto de la escultura en el campo expandido, desarrollando conexiones a través de las artes con la geología, la industria, el patrimonio y el medio ambiente y la conciencia global del planeta.
The project consists on a video installation with combines stone carved Portland stones and ancient jurasic amonites from the local quarries. The main video projection has an elliptical shape and comes from the roof towards stone carved slabs lying on the floor. It leads us to an holistic view of the planet and its transformation within the geological periods: cuaternarium, cretaceous, jurasic and Permian. The last one keeps the shape of Pangea, the whole continent, which refers to an original consciousness, the beginning of genetics and a universe of concepts in relation to the unified world. This concept joins with the sentence “Prosperity without Growth”, one world with limited resources. Adding meaning to all of that words, some images are shown which concern to this unified commitment, like the Voyager, who is traveling outside the solar system along the space carrying universal messages, which in case to be found by another civilizations in another galaxies, would be transmitted. Images and greetings messages of our whole World as a utopical unified human society.
TRANSITIONAL LANDSCAPES
PORTLAND 2011 vídeo HD exportado a PAL DVD, 3'24''
This video shows, trough the quarry and industry of Portland landscape, a reflection about the deconstruction of landscapes, the demand of territory and resources, and the continuous transformation of our civilizations and lands, from nature to manufactured products and finally wastes. The continuous demand and waste comes by hand of the arquetip of an ancient civilization Nature goddess, which personalize and symbolizes the evolution and development process by the human spice exploitation of natural landscapes and resources.
EROSION
PORTLAND 2011 vídeo HD exportado a PAL DVD, 3'59''
From Longed for Landscapes exhibition in 2011:This video shows the different erosion process from slowly and natural way by the cliffs´ shore of Portland Island, to the artificial erosion by the quarry industry (in this case, machinery of Albion Stone Quarry Company).
