Estudios del parpadeo
Ana Esteve Reig
Luis Adelantado, Valencia
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- Title
- Estudios del parpadeo
- Gallery
- Luis Adelantado, Valencia
- Year
- 2022
- Duration
- 21 min
- Format & Technical
Single channel, Video Full HD, Color, Sound.
- LOOP Edition
- Ed. 2023
- Presented in LOOP by
- Luis Adelantado
- Ana Esteve Reig, Estudios del parpadeo, 2022
We go into the computer screen to discover different virtual scenes, mainly set in a metaverse (Second Life), while listening to two voiceovers telling us how they deal with the discomfort in different ways. Through these testimonies, a parallelism is created between virtual reality and meditation (and other spiritual practices) as ways to move into another dimension and deal with problems or worries and to concerns and project what we do not achieve in real life. The protagonists are represented through avatars as they move and inhabit these virtual scenes. A third voice guides us in meditation to take us on this virtual journey.
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The work of Ana Esteve Reig (Agres, 1986), develops mainly in the field of video art. Through her productions, the artist addresses issues such as the construction of social archetypes, the dichotomy between reality and fiction, and social dynamics in virtual reality.
Recently she had an important solo show at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemizsa. Her work has been recognized with the BBVA Video Art Creation Multiverse Scholarship, and has been recipient off aid from both the Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Community of Madrid. Likewise, her work has been exhibited at the Valencia Institute of Modern Art in Alcoi, in the #Unmetroymedio project of Dos de Mayo Art Center and at Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló (EACC), among others.