Lois Patiño. ‘Sol rojo’ [Red Sun]
3 — 20 November 2022
- Artists
- Lois Patiño
- Venue
- Ocean Drive Barcelona
- Contributor
- RocioSantaCruz
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The project HADAL, to which the piece Sol rojo belongs, proposes an immersion into the abyss of the ocean. Hadal is the deepest stratum of the ocean, more than 6000 meters deep, where there is a total absence of light and the temperature is very cold. The word hadal refers to the Greek god of death, Hades, and his domain, hades, the place of death.
The project focuses on the perceptive and sensory aspects of the underwater experience, where buoyancy, the rhythm of breathing and the refraction of light, awaken sensations that take you beyond the corporeal. An intimate and contemplative experience of deep introspection.
Sol rojo is the piece that culminates this journey from the darkness and cold of the deep sea, towards light, color and signs of life. A storm of fish swirls around a motionless figure, which oscillates weightlessly with the flow of the water. From inside the sea we can observe the source of light and heat: a red, liquid sun floating in the water.
Lois Patiño
- Artist
1983, Vigo
Lois Patiño (Vigo, 1983) combined his psychology studies at the Complutense University of Madrid with those of cinema at the Tai School. Later he obtained the Master in Documentary Creation at Pompeu Fabra University and completed video art courses at the Universität der Künst in Berlin and workshops with artists and filmmakers such as Joan Jonas, James Benning, Pedro Costa, Víctor Erice, José Luis Guerín and Daniel Canogar.
His videos and installations have been exhibited at national and international art centers such as MACBA and CCCB (Barcelona), Casa Encendida (Madrid), MARCO (Vigo), Luis Seoane Foundation (A Coruña), San Martín Cultural Center (Buenos Aires), and Konstnarshuset (Stockholm).
His films have been shown at film festivals such as Cinema du Réel, Media City, Toronto Festival or Rencontres Internationales, which takes place at the Center Pompidou (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid). He has earned several awards such the Robert Fulton III Scholarship given by Harvard University in 2016, the award for best emerging director by Locarno Festival in 2013 and a grant from the BBVA Foundation. His work has been awarded and exhibited at festivals and institutions such as Festival of Oberhausen (Germany), Clermont- Ferrand (France), Bucharest Experimental IFF (Romania) or FIDOCS (Chile), Jeonju IFF (South Korea), FICUNAM (Mexico D.F.), Festival dei Popoli (Italy), Valdivia IFF (Chile) European Festival of Seville, San Francisco Festival and Rotterdam IFF.
