/ SOLSTICE SESSION /
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Tuesday 15 December 2025, 19:00h - 20:00h
Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica. Barcelona.
Dedykowane Leszkowi Wolińskiemu
Viewing and listening to unexpected and perhaps questionable anonimous imagery, probably uncountable and contradictory, disturbing and dreamy. In first place, this session proposes a speculation about the stereotypes that in times of emergency are assumed to be unnecessary and futile. In the second place, taking as a starting point the notion of hyperaccumulation as a possibility in certain contemporary imagery, a relationship is drawn between this and the complex intimacy of the singular, manual image. Solstice Session compiles a series of welcoming yet disturbing derivations, moments of difficult identification that, like a hieroglyph, promote an effort at active reasoning, once again based on unconfirmed intuitions and movements, in a context that seeks to shed treacherous identifiers and expected associations.
In this prototype session, only possible in the days before the Winter Solstice, a useful reflection is proposed, from an interpretive and analytical perspective guided by an intuitive process, on asymmetries and imbalances, precarious balances, and useful contradictions applied to the construction of an imaginary that cannot be described in this introductory text.Solstice Session connects with Impossible Times, the beginning of the current cycle, Times to Come. Solstice Session is a continuation of the study process at the Unidentified Video Observatory on the progressive dissolution of the essential character of contemporary imaginaries, of their intimate integrity as effective means for understanding and unlocking curiosities.
Solstice Session, 30m, Anonymous, 2025.
Solstice Session is a sequence composed of slow time motion images and manual ambient sounds. In a structured whole in a purely perceptual format, it features a series of imaginaries about unidentified places, spaces and things. Stereotyped figurations relocated on the edge of what we recognize as real, close or familiar.
After the momentary collapse of the dream, we are beyond the mirage and the impossible times, we patiently cross the last days before the longest night of the solar year. In an anonymous expression of contemplative moments impossible to express in words or thoughts, we propose in this long sequence composed of paused segments and strange illusions, a possible port of departure to other, more favorable destinations. We adopt a strategy of risk and a certain uprooting, we consciously always place ourselves in the limit that separates the possibility from the unthinkable. In this context, between the apparently real and what we assume a priori as unreal, we dissolve into a no man's land. It is in this intermediate space where the imbalance between night and day works in our favor.
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