Future Foods
Gerard Ortín Castellví
àngels barcelona, Barcelona
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- Title
- Future Foods
- Gallery
- àngels barcelona, Barcelona
- Year
- 2020
- Duration
- 20 min
- Format & Technical
Video HD, single channel, sound.
Ed. 3 + 1 PA- Contact
Quico Peinado
quico@angelsbarcelona.com
This film revolves around the making of plastic food at the workshops of Replica LTD, one of the few UK based companies that still manufactures props for films, advertisements and displays. The perception of food, its appealingness, and palatability through a constructed image, come into play when observing these hand-crafted manufacturing processes through a camera. A phone conversation with the CEO of a Finnish future foods’ start-up introduces us to a cutting edge technology consisting of the production of a new protein generated from water, electricity and CO₂ captured from the air. Solein is a new technology that speculates with a near-future without agriculture and land-use effects.
This project is supported by The Elephant Trust.
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Artist, filmmaker, and researcher, Gerard Ortín combines his artistic practice with his music background to experiment with various audiovisual, sound, and performative formats. His work explores the meaning of nature, delving into related concepts such as the animal, the non-human, landscape, territory, domestication, the vegetal, the telluric, and more. Ortin holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (UB) and an MA from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and Goldsmiths University in London, where he is currently pursuing a PhD and teaching. He has exhibited his works at institutions such as the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, Tabakalera in San Sebastián, àngels barcelona as well as in countries such as Norway, Iceland, the United Kingdom or the United States, among others. His films have been selected for festivals such as Berlinale, Cinéma du Réel, and Punto de Vista.
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Located in Barcelona’s Raval district, àngels barcelona operates as a platform for contemporary artistic manifestations, with the aim of transcending disciplines and promoting critical thinking by developing a programme that brings together collaborations with artists, curators and other cultural agents at a local and international level. The gallery is a space where historical, social, political and media discourses are rethought. àngels barcelona builds, promotes and explores new cultural bridges, as well as experimental artistic practices.