315
Daniel Jacoby
Ciaccia Levi, Paris | Milan
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- Title
- 315
- Gallery
- Ciaccia Levi, Paris | Milan
- Year
- 2023
- Duration
- 14 min
- Format & Technical
Colour, Stereo, Spanish spoken, 1.33:1
- LOOP Edition
- Ed. 2024
- Presented in LOOP by
- Ciaccia Levi
- Edition of 5 Courtesy of the artist and Ciaccia Levi, Paris - Milan
A sequence of family anecdotes and historical events coinciding with the artist’s date of birth takes on a different tone as he unearths what happened in his native Peru on that specific day in 1989. The monotonous pattern of facts pertaining to the 31st of May suddenly begins to unveil connections to notions of oppressive masculinity, the nuanced tactics employed by imperialist forces, and a neoliberal dream that facilitated the neglect of an important episode in Peruvian history.
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Daniel Jacoby (1985, Peru) is a Peruvian visual artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. Fascinated by the intricacies of the human condition, he makes films that portray characters, communities or social practices from inventively tangential perspectives.
In his sculptural practice, Jacoby recurrently navigates the tension between his youthful idealization of Western progress in Peru and his adult awareness of the imperialist systems underpinning it since he migrated to Europe.
In both films and installations, visual elements borrowed from the Global South help construct a suggestive visual language, imbued with elements from his personal narrative. His work has been presented at MoMA Doc Fortnight (New York), e-flux Screening Room (New York), EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), Delfina Foundation (London), The Banff Centre (Alberta), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), among others. His films have won awards at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Videoex Zürich, Filmadrid, Curtocircuito and Lima Independiente.
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- Title
- Cuculí
- Gallery
- Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona
- Year
- 2011
- Duration
- 11 min 31 s
- Format & Technical
Single channel, HD video, Colour, Sound, Spanish text
- LOOP Edition
- Ed. 2012
- Presented in LOOP by
- Galeria Toni Tàpies
Cuculí intertwines a series of short stories of the artist’s visit to Japan. Most anecdotes, though, get frustrated by the lack of a substantial piece of information. Interspersed with these stories, a female voice explains biological facts about the singing of birds. The recognition of these calls through aide-memoire phrases invented by bird guides and the etymology of their names function as metaphors for the artist’s confrontation with an unfamiliar culture. The high-tech aesthetics pursued throughout the film, although resembling of Tokyo, was actually achieved through the motions and lights of a model staged at the artist’s studio after his return.
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