Every time you breathe
In this exhibition titled “Every time you breathe” Gabriela Francone presents animations and digital images, in which she uses and reflects at the same time on new values of change and symbolic traffic, available on the web. Shadowy urban scenarios and suspended architectures alternate in sequences made from the intervention of preset virtual material. On this occasion a “Kit for building a post-apocalyptic camp”, “Trash” and a young girl who dances in a loop “midnight moves” among others.
Secret scenarios by Horacio Zabala
Gabriela Francone’s recent works are reduced models of “stages” populated by “actors and actresses.” These visual simulations result from multiple successive operations from the computer, based on “electronic raw material” available online. The artist’s works can be considered the result of post-production, that is, a transformation and diversion of products that are exhibited, circulated and for sale, ready to consume. His poetic language recreates (transforms and diverts) these standard products so that “narratives” appear through images, fixed and mobile. This involves choosing, combining and transplanting, recycling, rehearsing and rehearsing the “staging”. That is, putting invisible relationships into play between visible images so that we look at them and think about them again and again. We approach any of its settings to enjoy its contemplation, seek an interpretation, have an aesthetic experience: we see that they are structured and ordered compositions, with precise and balanced details. The landscapes are urban or desert, both with characters that move slowly, apparently in silence, absent and thoughtful and with almost imperceptible connections with the environment. This rarefied, intense and disturbing atmosphere allows us (requires us) to freely associate and discover multiple allusions to themes from the history of modern and non-modern art: landscape painting, metaphysical painting, impure realism, dance, mimesis , found objects, eroticism, cosmetics, the tradition of retouched photography, theater, design, fashion, film montage, collage, readymade. Given such a diversity of references to art history, a kind of “uncertainty principle” could be applied to them. But the same principle can also be applied to your work. Indeed, in their scenarios, it is impossible to identify one dominant meaning and only one. When there is plurality and heterogeneity in a work of art, nothing should be excluded, everything can be included. If beauty is a promise of happiness, as Charles Baudelaire stated, perhaps each of these beautiful settings hides an enigma. Your solution could also be a promise of happiness. To those who choose to observe a scenario with attention and intention, the secret of its enigma will be revealed. But only one person at a time.
