David Mocha, Cris Bartual, Pablo Sandoval, Andrea Corrales and Fernando Bayona their authors five projects It will be located at the University of Alicante Museum (MUA) with its artistic creation and research residency program and will achieve its goal this year. eighth edition. The chosen will have Two weeks from September 12-23 to realize your bid MUA facilities that will result in joint exhibition in different art disciplines, always connected with contemporary creation with the result of their work.
Five projects completed selected from a total of 33 offers received and will enjoy a scholarship 500 Euro for production besides working 1.000 euro for one of them accommodation scholarship, in this case, takes Fernando Bayona from Granada. Out of 33 submitted applications, 23 of them come from outside the province, the rest of Spain and abroad.. Faced with this increase in foreign demand, UA Deputy Rector of Culture, double next year Accommodation scholarships of one thousand Euros shown from MUA.
Among the chosen photography is where David Mocha moves (Reus, 1980), based in Alicante for many years focused its project on Rabasa neighborhoodAn area “at opposite ends of the utopian ideal of landscape that lies within our cultural imagination” is included in the photographer’s proposal. “to discover that another aesthetic is possible in these landscapes” and offers it to the audience. Rabasa: An Imaginary Map of the Useless Zone “Uncovering the usefulness and beauty of abandoned landscapes of the urban environment”.
The photographic installation is at the root of the project. dive into the mirrorof the Chris Bartual (Valencia, 1966), “Settle into images, travel within them to discover new places”, which will include images from different times and origins that could be from nearby places but from a distant universe or a dream. With them the line between fact and fiction will deal with topics such as memory or nature. “Re-imagining what can be seen with the eyes and the mind”.
murcian Paul Sandoval do research about the meaning of objects and how myths are created Via your facility unusual nature. the last heavenphotographs, audio-visual materials, a fake An engraving and large paper typed with a typewriter, among others. “An object is a container with infinite potential meanings,” he states in his project, which explores how transmission channels re-make images and “how myths are constructed from things we don’t see or sense.”
Ferdinand Bayonne (Jaen, 1980) Source It aims to approach experimental and documentary photography, sculpture and audio-visual methods. human capacity to make art and answer questions like when artistic activity and symbolic thought arise. He sets out from a discovery “the meaning of which we will never know”, with manifestations in a Morse code-like protolanguage, showing that Neanderthals, like Homo Sapiens, had this representational capacity in a cave painting in Malaga. and he tries interpret with plastic approaches.
Finally, Alicante Andrea Corrales proposes creating graphic material through experimental drawing techniques from the fieldwork of his doctoral research on pictures in online porn. It is a proposal for the artistic creation of the thesis, which is based on interviews with different sex workers in the audio-visual sector, suggesting what other images can be created in a different social and political context.