Horizon Of Exile
12 — 22 November 2018
- Artists
- Isabel Rocamora
- Venues
- Fundació Vila Casas – Espais VolART
- Contributor
- With the contribution of the Galila Hollander collection.
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With the aim of starting a conversation with local collections committed to the promotion of contemporary art, LOOP contributes to the exhibition Somiant una possibilitat [“Dreaming of a Possibility”] curated by Natàlia Chocarro Bosom and Alicia Ventura Bordes with Isabel Rocamora’s video Horizon of Exile. On the premises of the Espais Volart, the show brings together works of the Fundació Vila Casas and the DKV collections in order to foster interactions between different artists’ practices and their personal readings of time and its peculiarities. In this context, Horizon of Exile by Rocamora stands as an intimate meditation on stories of female exile, inspired by the testimonies of Iraqi refugee women. The work shows a series of actresses as they traverse a desert, seemingly suspended in time, and highlights their choreographed movements as they address issues of land and identity.
Isabel Rocamora
- Artist
1968, Barcelona
Isabel Rocamora (1968, Barcelona, Spain) is a British-Spanish artist filmmaker whose work considers the performative nature of human gesture and its relationship to individual and cultural identity. Awarded internationally, Rocamora’s moving image work can be seen in museums and filmothèques worldwide. Her films have been exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Art Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; the National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen; the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Museum of Modern Art Bologna. Her work has most recently been on display at Shaw Gallery at the Weber State University, Utah, US; The Kaviar Factory, Lofoten, Norway; Summerhall Galleries, Edinburgh, UK; and the Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Rocamora lives and works between Barcelona and Edinburgh.
