Sanctum 2 by Alex Haas (USA, 1963) is the single channel version of a larger installation thought for multiple projectors looping at different lengths. The video was created by extracting and digitally altering minute portions of high resolution scans of analog colour photographs taken by Haas’ late father Ernst. As both a musician and a visual artist, Haas is interested in the analogous thought processes and techniques in the recording of sound and visual imagery. With Sanctum, sight and sound become one and the issue of time exists as a medium in itself. While including the music by internationally renowned composer Brian Eno, the video thus anticipates the large retrospective dedicated to the musician, to be held at Arts Santa Mònica right after LOOP and curated by Lluis Nacenta.

Art critic and curator Carles Guerra converses with collectors Emilio Pi and Helena Fernandino in the context of the exhibition ‘VÍDEO-RÉGIMEN. Coleccionistas en la era audiovisual‘, that took place at Cercle del Liceu during LOOP Barcelona 2015, and had been previously on show at Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid.
The result is a lively conversation on the paradoxes surrounding video as a medium, its status as a collectible, its distribution and preservation, as well as the much debated role of collectors in video and film production. Holding about 1000 titles (among which are archival pieces, editions and video installations), the Collection Pi Fernandino functions as a magnifying lens on the history and evolution of the medium, while it also positions itself among those “pedagogical collections” to be shared with and enjoyed by people.