MINUTA PARA UN ESTANQUE
Installation, variable dimensions
Projections on water and sound.
2014
Minute for a Pond presents a series of visual fragments captured on video from reflections on the water. The enumeration and arrangement of these images together construct the notion of a place.
The installation consists of five videos projected—some directly onto the water’s surface, others reflected onto the walls of the space. Simultaneously, a hydrograph records the accumulation of moisture in the environment through drawing, while the repetitive sound of a frog creates ripples on the water, activating its surface.
The images reveal fleeting and precise details: the movement of insects, the slow passage of clouds, a confrontation between a spider and a dragonfly, and multiple reflections of the aquatic landscape. The projections are cast onto particular architectural elements—corners, under staircases, nooks—where the image distorts and becomes a painterly form that echoes its own reflection, breaking the traditional rectangular frame of the video and opening up a new visual poetics.
The frog’s sound, made visible through the pond’s ripples, accompanies the projections, generating a sensation of expansion and continuity, as if time and image were infinitely prolonged upon the water.