Xavi Hurtado

Spain

Xavi Hurtado started working with analogue video in the late 1980s, and later shifted to digital media. His work includes installations and live action, as well as single channel video as a narrative form. His research into changes in the nature of the visual and its relationships to contemporary technological devices takes the form of essay-like poetic exploration or meta-referential audiovisual exploration. In 2000 he started to explore the experience of sleep in so-called indigenous cultures as a space of transculturation and interaction with other adjacent visualities, mainly in Colombia. With this he embarked on a path of seeking intersections between the nature of images in animist systems of thought and experimental video.