A desperate voyage...
2:14 p.m.
The MACBA is currently exhibiting The Workshop by Gilad Ratman (Israel, 1975), an installation on 5 screens that simultaneously broadcast a video of an expedition around Mount Carmel, in Haifa, Israel.
The Workshop, by Gilard Ratman
Technique: video-installation - MACBA
The group begins descending into a cave in the mountain, with little elements: some carry a backpack, others a pick or rope, but nothing resembling a survival kit.
The Workshop, by Gilard Ratman
Technique: video-installation - MACBA
After going through a series of passages, the group reaches a clean and illuminated place where another adventure begins: it's an artist's workshop, where explorers model a self-portrait using whatever they can find or have brought with them.
The Workshop, by Gilard Ratman
Technique: video-installation - MACBA
A microphone is placed into the sculpted head and the explorers shout or make guttural noises, transforming the workshop from artistic to vocal.
In spite of working by themselves, barely relating to each other, they are connected by this unique experience.
The Workshop, by Gilard Ratman
Technique: video-installation - MACBA
Definitely a touching yet alienating video-installation, in which a distorted humanity is seeking for a new place to live in community, with others but having the chance to express freely. It's a very particular aesthetic like that of artist Carlos Alonso (Argentina, 1929) in the painting L.E.S., in which he reflects on the role of the artist in the world.
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