Bitola
Director Nuno Ventura Barbosa
Countries Portugal
Duration 45 min
Synopsis
L'orange investigates the spectator, in the sense that he asks them for a 'materialized memory', he gives the objects to a given exhibition, in a given order, within the bounds of a certain norm (bitola) and waits for the linking thread, for the spectator's story. The video searches the people for trails of the objects and for the movement that they trace in the space within which they circulate. Bitola does not deal with the way in which Francisco Trofa inhabits the space but with the way in which the artist's work is inhabited. The video itself is an observatory: the spectators in the ruin constructed by art.
L'orange investigates the spectator, in the sense that he asks them for a 'materialized memory', he gives the objects to a given exhibition, in a given order, within the bounds of a certain norm (bitola) and waits for the linking thread, for the spectator's story. The video searches the people for trails of the objects and for the movement that they trace in the space within which they circulate. Bitola does not deal with the way in which Francisco Trofa inhabits the space but with the way in which the artist's work is inhabited. The video itself is an observatory: the spectators in the ruin constructed by art.