Alma’s Song
Alex Reynolds
Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid
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- Title
- Alma’s Song
- Gallery
- Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid
- Year
- 2018
- Duration
- 7 min 57 s
Alma is listening to a barely audible recording of herself talking about her childhood home, which she has recently discovered is for sale in a real estate listing. The film quietly probes the capacity to feel translation –from oral to aural and past to present– as Alma follows the artist’s request to extract a melody out of what she hears. The result is an intimate portrait, and a song.
Alma’s Song bears witness to the beginnings of a close collaboration between choreographer Alma Söderberg and Alex Reynolds, who went on to work on other projects by the artist such as Esta puerta, esta ventana, and coauthored the film The Hand that Sings, which premiered at Guggenheim Bilbao this year as part of the exhibition There is a Law, There is a Hand, There is a Song.
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Alex Reynolds
- Artist
1987, Bilbao
Alex Reynolds (b. 1978, Bilbao, Spain) lives and works in Brussels. She studied Fine Arts at Goldsmiths University of London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London) and Chelsea College of Art and Design (London). She won a grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2013, as well as the Fine Arts Grant from the Botín Foundation in 2016, “la Caixa” Foundation’s Call for Productions in 2020 and the Video Production Award of Loop, Ars Santa Mónica and XAV (2021).
Her works have been exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Index Foundation (Stockholm), Hollybush Gardens (London), the Centre d’Art La Panera (Lleida), FRAC Lorraine (Metz), the Museum M (Leuven), Galería Marta Cervera (Madrid), among others. Her films have been shown in cinemas and festivals such as BFI London Film Festival (London), Curtocircuito (Santiago de Compostela), Documenta (Madrid), FIDMarseille (Marseille), Rencontres Internationales (Paris). Reynolds’ work is represented in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Museu de Valls, Statens Musikverk, among others.
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Première
- Title
- Billie and Nilo
- Year
- 2022
- Video Creation Award la Xarxa i Loop 2022
Reynolds departs from the idea that a film is always several films at once. On the one hand there is the story that is told and on the other, a document of the people, the place and the atmosphere that this fiction generates. The films reflect the decisions of the author, but at the same time they are the record of a moment in the lives of the people and the landscape put at the service of the story. Instead of working for the story, it is the story that puts to work the elements that make up the film. Reynolds is precisely interested in this subtext of the film document.
In Billie and Nilo, Reynolds asks, through the portrait of a child and his relationship with adults, what would happen if the relationship between adult and child were reversed and it was the adult who depended on the child, the latter being who had control and knowledge of the world.
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Galeria Marta Cervera
- Address
- Calle Valencia 28, 28012, Madrid, Spain
- Phone
- +34 913 105 036
- Website
- www.martacerveragallery.com
Galería Marta Cervera is an international contemporary art gallery based in Madrid, responsible for first showing the work of internationally acclaimed artists, establishing a reputation for discovering promising talent that it has consistently maintained. Since opening its doors, it has become a space for innovative, pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and breaking through the Spanish art gallery scene.