Sísifo
2022
Exhibition documentation by Munir Toral
2022
Exhibition documentation by Munir Toral
Sísifo, 2022Hi8 video transferred to digital, color, sound, screens
1:00:30, looped
Installation view, CROMA, Mexico City, 2022
1:00:30, looped
Installation view, CROMA, Mexico City, 2022
Sísifo is an audiovisual piece created by Lucas Martín Sáenz, Hugo Matula, Maureen Muse
and Munir Toral. The work was formed through experimental structures of creation.
The script was written and presented by Toral, who was then filmed and styled by Matula, both artists living in Mexico City. The footage was then sent to Muse in Madrid, who saw the video and subsequently created an edit and installation. Finally, the sound piece was developed with Martín, who also living in Madrid. The structure takes, reevaluates, and rejects traditional elements and notions of film production. The collaboration was based on intuition and interpretation, as the work grew out of a distinct process between the artists that allowed for an original image. Following a process-based method allowed the work to happen in the present rather than with pre-mediated materials. This intention then follows in line with the experience of viewing or “projection” of the story of Sisifus, which comes to life in the space.
SCREENINGS:
2022, CROMA, Mexico City, Mexico. 2022, Marcablanca Press, Madrid, Spain.
The script was written and presented by Toral, who was then filmed and styled by Matula, both artists living in Mexico City. The footage was then sent to Muse in Madrid, who saw the video and subsequently created an edit and installation. Finally, the sound piece was developed with Martín, who also living in Madrid. The structure takes, reevaluates, and rejects traditional elements and notions of film production. The collaboration was based on intuition and interpretation, as the work grew out of a distinct process between the artists that allowed for an original image. Following a process-based method allowed the work to happen in the present rather than with pre-mediated materials. This intention then follows in line with the experience of viewing or “projection” of the story of Sisifus, which comes to life in the space.
SCREENINGS:
2022, CROMA, Mexico City, Mexico. 2022, Marcablanca Press, Madrid, Spain.