Unseen Art: JosГ© ГЃngel Gomis GonzГЎlez presents their Medusa videos

by Manu Sharma

JosГ© ГЃngel Gomis GonzГЎlez came to be in Madrid, but has invested the majority of their life in Valencia. He has got examined Fine Arts, but their main passions have constantly leaned towards movie and movie.

A lot of their surreal movie work explores themes of sex, death, ambitions, family members and sin. Moreover, he’s not merely one to shy far from making art only for the benefit of visual research, and his oeuvre so far takes the design of an eclectic mixture of impacts and lived experience, coming as well as an unmistakable artistic force also at its subtlest.

Medusa Videos is just a project that is longstanding started as just one artistic test because of the musician. Nevertheless, because of individual circumstances and backlash when it comes to shocking nature of their work, GonzГЎlez would come to feel disheartened, and Medusa Videos had been very nearly kept unfinished. But, while the meeting below will point out, he could be in a better destination now, and Medusa Videos is finally complete, and able to be looked at with its entirety, when it comes to time that is first.

1. Please explore your overall training.

I will be a cinephile that is huge We have liked everything linked to movie and video since I have ended up being a young child. My preferences are particularly individual and I also have been interested in the ‘forbidden good fresh fruit’ in life. Once I discover little-known movie and video clip jobs, i’m such as the possibilities are endless!

I began photos that are editing videos academically, and also this included brief, narrative movies that I nevertheless make today. I quickly started initially to provide my pictures way too much color, to combine pictures and videos within an abstract means and I also fundamentally discovered the glitch visual combined with probabilities of melding electronic and analog video clip. This has permitted me personally to show some ideas that we just can’t avoid in my own work, such as for instance nostalgia, death, intercourse, psychological problems, evening, town living, surrealism, dreams, cyberpunk philosophy, melancholy, lies, family members or sin, all from a cynical viewpoint. On the other hand, a number of my works are manufactured with regard to looks alone.

2. Whenever as well as in exactly just what circumstances do you conceive this work?

While I happened to be learning Fine Arts, I registered on Instagram (as meduzze55555) to talk about my glitch art and much more. We saw the film Pleased End (Oldrich LipskГЅ, 1967) during this time period, that has been an important motivation for me personally.

Then we began the Medusa Videos task by reversing footage of a table getting used by my buddies, on sheer impulse alone. We liked it and made more work similar to this, but i obtained prohibited from Instagram, therefore I felt disheartened, eventually destroyed interest. Thus, the video clip work we began aided by the first movie stayed unfinished.

Years later on, i will be in a much better destination: we wound up making nine more brief videos, and now feel as if my project is complete.

3. What’s the theme for the job?

The video clip is an accumulation 18 videos that are short chapters. We called them Medusa Videos, given that jellyfish is named ‘Medusa’ in Spanish. Its my animal that is favourite through this artwork, i will be connecting it to my ‘worlds’. Ergo, Medusa Videos is all about these global worlds i inhabit. It really is a number of visual quirks, color experiments and psychological confessions.

I’m constantly recording videos or using pictures, therefore I accumulated numerous gorgeous moments that We never ever knew how to proceed with. Dealing with these snippets, we realised in early stages it was quite interesting to reverse the videos. Have actually you ever realized that in reversed footage, individual motion starts to resemble a jellyfish’s motions?

You can find therefore a lot of things in this movie ( absolutely absolutely nothing explicit, that will be unusual in my work) that the saga could continue indefinitely. Nevertheless, it comes to an end at chapter 18, that has been made utilizing a VHS recording of my children. Eighteen could be the very first 12 months of adulthood, and served to produce a feeling of finality into the task. Once I ended up being making one other 17 chapters, we felt like a young child!

4. Just just What procedure ended up being utilized to really make the work?

We have great deal of modifying apps, from PicsArt to Glitch! and I also made initial nine videos mostly through these. These apps have the choice to reverse the movie, edit tints and textures, overlay music, etc.

The 2nd 50 % of the show had been made much within the way that is same but by using Premiere professional to my computer. The transitions between my videos are genuine analog problems which were modified, plus some for the older videos had been modified once more to include a degree of underlying homogeneity to your ongoing act as a complete.

The songs is a track we made, en en en titled ‘La medusa’.

5. Why do you might think it will not be shown yet?

I like this concern. This artwork did start off as n’t a task, but alternatively merely being a test.

After being prohibited on Instagram, very little one saw my artistic work, and I also had to clean within the videos that individuals reported. We additionally removed some Medusa videos as well as others that have been maybe maybe maybe not reported. This made me feel terrible, and didn’t assist utilizing the currently hard circumstances of my entire life at that time. Ergo, we finished up losing fascination with the task, therefore the work stayed unfinished and mostly unseen.

My entire life was pretty bad in those days, nevertheless now i will be recovering. We have actually got jobs at heart, I’ve completed taking care of Medusa Videos, and also this discussion and have had been simply the motivation We needed seriously to finalise and compile the entire thing.

6. Just exactly What will be the perfect (most desired) format to show the work if as soon as offered the possibility?

We have not thought about this yet because We have never ever conceived my movie artwork for just about any web web web web site beyond the online world. Nonetheless it will be amazing if my narrative quick movies and my movie art had been shown regarding the screen that is big. I would personally be delighted to possess a good turnout that is modest.

Unseen Art: Curated by Rahul Kumar, STIR presents Unseen Art: a series that is original features works that have not been proven publicly, developed by an array of multidisciplinary designers from around the world.