[LEVE]
Press stop in your head for a while and press play in your body: this is what editor Verónica Fieiras proposes with Leve, a project which is part of the annual collaboration between Getxophoto and the Kutxa Fundazioa Fototeka.
In a society that puts our mind at the centre of everything, Leve invites us to recover our body as a place of refuge, a protective nest from which to let imagination fly – such an essential ability for life and for play – and dream of a world which is a little lighter. A moment of repair and self-care, where play is perceived as an act of resistance that turns the body into a channel for action. Fieiras’ work shows archive images of people diving accompanied by a musical selection that is ideal for making the mind go blank: the suspension of these bodies, protagonists of a moment from the past, make a hypnotic movement, a visual mantra that induces us to our own contemplative journey.
The final result is a series of limited edition records produced especially for the Festival. Let your mind go and let yourself levitate.
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Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Verónica Fieiras has ben residing in her hometown since 2019, after living twenty years in Madrid. She is a visual artist, editor, cultural manager, collaborator in creative projects, director of Escuela Migra, and a member of the Migra Feria de Arte Impreso collective. In 2013, she founded RIOT Books, a publishing house through which she released her book The Disappeared nominated for Best Photobook of the Year at the 2014 Kassel Festival. In 2015, she edited and designed You Haven’t Seen Their Faces by Daniel Mayrit, which won the Aperture-Paris Photo Award for Best Photobook of the Year. In 2016, she founded the independent publishing house Chaco, focusing on Latin American artists and having published 11 books to date. Several of the books she has edited and designed have been exhibited in venues such as the CCCB, the National Library of Spain, the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the Daegu Photo Biennale, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the MOMA in New York, among others. They have been acquired by public and private collections, including those of Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, Erik Kessels, MOMA, and the conceptualization of photobooks in Mexico, Madrid, and Barcelona.
12 – VERÓNICA FIEIRAS
[LEVE]
INDOOR INSTALLATION
WHERE: CASINO OF ALGORTA
TIME:
FRIDAYS 17:30-20:30
SATURDAYS 12:00-15:00 / 17:30-20:30
SUNDAYS 12:00-15:00
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