Fran Orallo
digital scenery #01
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The work consists of a series of video fragments from a personal archive that I have been generating over several years. Each fragment has been glitched, with the intention of generating compositions based on error and a strong pictorial charge, with a beauty that borders on abstraction. The work, with a strong poetic charge, shows the infinite possibilities inherent in the contemporary landscape.
The video focuses on the idea of the urban landscape. Conceptually, it proposes the idea of landscape as a formal structure, a surface of narrative abstraction, or a field of sociocultural research. The landscape has been intervened to create new spaces of great visual intensity, presenting another, more personal vision of the places and the society that inhabits them.
Fran Orallo (Badajoz, Spain 1979). He lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied art at UPV, Valencia, Spain, and New Media Art at City of Glasgow College, Scotland. His work focuses on experimentation with the field of video and animation. Using the concept of post-photography applied to the moving image, he generates dreamlike and surreal compositions in which the concept of reality is questioned. Using a hybrid imaginary, he explores the limits between truth and simulation. In his work, all the elements used are fragments of images taken from the web, through decontextualization and collage, he transforms these elements, giving them a new meaning. He has exhibited his work both in Spain and abroad, participating in biennials, collective exhibitions, and festivals in more than 40 countries. His work has been screened in public and private institutions such as IVAN (Valencia, Spain), Vostell Malpartida Museum (Cáceres, Spain), MAC- Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago de Chile (Chile), La Neomudejar (Madrid Spain), Centro del Carmen (Valencia, Spain), Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City, Mexico), Kyrgyz National Fine Arts Museum (Bishkek. Kirghizistan), biennales such as The Venice Biennale, (Venice, Italy), The Wrong Biennale, (Copenhagen, Denmark), VI SIART International Art Biennial (Bolivia), and in fairs and festivals such as ROW-Rome Art Week, (Rome, Italy), arteBA'10 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Under The Subway Video Art Night (New York), FILE (Brazil), Madatac (Madrid, Spain) or FIVA (Argentina) among others.
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