REED + RADER

Written by Andrea on . Posted in advertising, Animated gifs, photography, video

REED + RADER

Since helping to make the animated GIF a legitimate photographic editorial medium, Pamela and Matthew (aka Reed + Rader) have continued to imagine the digital possibilities in video, virtual worlds, and both internet based and physical interactive installations. Regardless of medium, Pamela and Matthew’s work is about the playful connectedness of the internet where everyone wears a mask and can be anyone, anything, and anywhere they can imagine in their digital dreams.

REED + RADER

REED + RADER

REED + RADER

REED + RADER

REED + RADER

Javier Pérez – En Puntas

Written by Andrea on . Posted in art, performance, video

Javier Perez - En puntas

“A ballerina, whose pointe shoes are extended by a set of sharp kitchen knives, dances and twirls insistently until reaching exhaustion, fighting to maintain balance on the lid of a grand piano set on a stage. The theatre with its red velvet warm lighting, resembles an oversized music box. The camera turns around the dancer revealing the opposite side of the room: an empty and painfully bare theatre.

The ballerina appears as an eerie figure expressing effort, sacrifice and pain in her strive for perfection. Both fragile and cruel. Initially shy and hesitant, her steps become more and more emphatic, menacing and not exempt of violence, scraping and cutting into the delicate surface of the piano with her sharp pointe shoes.

Through this work, Javier Perez investigates and reflects once again upon the human condition. Using a strongly metaphorical language rich in powerful symbolism, he reveals the weaknesses that become the boundaries between seemingly irreconcilable concepts such as: beauty and cruelty, fragility and violence, culture and nature or life and death.”

Javier Perez - En puntas

Javier Perez - En puntas

Javier Perez - En puntas

Javier Perez - En puntas

Javier Perez - En puntas

Javier Perez - En puntas

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