ÉLODIE ANTOINE
ROSALÍA BANET
WIEBKE BARTSCH
BARBARA BERNSTEINER
TANIA CANDIANI
BARBARA CAVENG
LADA CERAR
ANDREJKA ČUFER
JOCHEN FLINZER
CLAUS FÖTTINGER
ZUZANNA JANIN
METKA KAVČIČ
JUSTYNA KOEKE
MICHAEL KOS
EDUARD LESJAK
MARTIN LÖFFKE
POLONA MAHER
ISA MELSHEIMER
JANET MORTON
ALEN OŽBOLT
SANDRINE PELLETIER
MARIJA MOJCA PUNGERČAR
IRIS SCHIEFERSTEIN
SAŠO SEDLAČEK
CHIHARU SHIOTA
KEI TAKEMURA
ANDRÉ TEMPEL
ANU TUOMINEN
JULIA VAN KOOLWIJK
MARJOLIJN VAN DER MEIJ
PETRA VARL
PATRICIA WALLER
SILKE WAWRO

Rosalía Banet


Comestible 04, 2007, DVD video: 6 min 32 s

The video film entitled Comestibile 04, forms part of a larger series, although all videos
included in this series could also be seen as individual works. Three of them were made in collaboration with the English singer Sarah Brightman, and two of them – including the video presented at this exhibition – in collaboration with the Spanish singer Christina Rosenvinge. All the videos are positioned somewhere between a cookery recipe and an act of surgery.
Therefore it is not surprising that surgical thread has been used in the work as the main bearer of its message; it has been combined with ready-made and new objects, such as glass eyes, artificial matter in the shape of a birthday cake, and surgical and kitchen utensils, such as a scalpel and scissors. The artist employs this mixture of kitchen and surgical ambiences as a platform for the self-ironic reflection of a contemporary, emancipated woman who is capable of every deed but, at the same time, disoriented amidst the plethora of her roles – those that are inherent to her and those that she is actually able to realise. The identity of the protagonist in
the video is blurred; the work speaks of common pain and anguish. It also points to emotions, confusion, abandonment, (unpleasant) confinement in one's own feelings, dreams, beliefs and longings. All these traits are reflected in a musical score conveying a high degree of appropriate pathos, which is so shameful in the rationally oriented world. In direct opposition, the visual part of the work presents a Buñuel-like aesthetic of the horrible. If the visual language is rough, the musical one is consciously kitschy – just like the delightful and kitschy language of love, or infatuation.

Born in 1972 in Madrid (Spain). She graduated in visual arts from the Vigo University, where
she also completed her Ph.D. studies in 2003. She teaches painting at the Fine Arts Department in Altea. She exhibited in the framework of the project Madrid-Berlin. Sichtverhältnisse. 12 Positionen zeitgenössischer Malerei, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and at art fairs, such as ARCO, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze, Art Chicago and CIGE.

Solo exhibitions (selection):

2005 War Time Meals, Sala Juana Francés, Zaragoza
2004 Cómeme, cómeme, Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid
2001 Wedding Day, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
Looking for Love, Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid
2000 Beefcakes, Galería Espacio Mínimo, Murcia
Quiero ser santa, Galería Carmen de la Calle, Jerez de la Fronera

Group exhibitions (selection):

2006 ARCO´06, stand Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid
CIGE Baijing, stand Galería Espacio Mínimo, Beijing
Foro sur, stand Galería Espacio Mínimo, Cáceres
2005 Cuestiones de Arte político, Diputación de Huesca
ARCO´05, stand Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid
Foro Sur, stand Galería Espacio Mínimo, Cáceres
Volta 01, stand Galería Espacio Mínimo, Basel

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