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"Memoria Fragmentada" is an installation made in
collaboration with Seppo Renvall for Fokus Finlandia -group
exhibition in Kültur Büro Barcelona. Seppo Renvall´s
video “Woody” is projected on the back wall of the
darkened rectangular exhibition space. The video, made of
material shot by his father on 8mm film, shows two year old
Seppo
wondering around the garden of their summerhouse in mid 60’s.
In addition there are ten rounded double-sided mirrors hanging
in a row between the projector and the projection wall. These
mirrors rotate slowly with electric motors, about one round
in a minute.
The rotating mirrors reflect slowly orbiting spots of the
video projection on the surrounding walls of the exhibition
space. The spots reflected by mirrors close to the projector
have wider view and
more details in them where as the mirrors closer to the back
wall reflect very abstract, low resolution spots of the original
video.
Since some of the mirrors rotate opposite direction the spots
occasionally meet and overlap each other. This same effect
is also caused by reflections passing the slower ones. Although
all mirrors rotate at the same speed the reflected spots which
are further from the source mirror are not only bigger but
also move faster.
The installation creates an atmosphere remindingdreams in
which fragments of your past suddenly come into your mind
in random order only to be forgotten again. The images which
were so vivid at night fade into confused traces of them by
the morning. What remains is kind of melancholic longing for
innocence you cannot reach anymore.
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