Tejer un cuerpo. Video instalación (2023)

Weaving a body (Tisser un corps) A project commissioned by festival VIDEOFORMES 2023 (Clermont Ferrand, France)

Single-channel video installation on two woven surfaces (3m x 2m x 1,50m) 12:47 min (loop projection)

What if we try to undo the rules that have been imposed on our bodies and begin to weave our own subjectivity?
Weaving is a practice that requires time, commitment, and patience—qualities required to form affective bonds with those around us as well as for developing ourselves as beings with our own ideas, feelings, and desires. As a result, weaving can be viewed as a metaphor for the construction of one’s own body in affective interaction with others, with the resulting texture evoking the concept of plasticity via haptic sensations.
This installation is inspired by the feminist ideas of Monique Wittig, Paul Preciado, and Catherine Malabou, and it attempts to explore the concept of a body in transformation through weaving and digital textures. Images and music are intended to evoke a body in search of its own affective and erotic expression, confronting its own fragility and discovering its strength in plasticity.

Credits:
Weave, video and music by Úrsula San Cristóbal
Production: VIDEOFORMES, with the support of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes digital artistic creation – Fonds [SCAN]