Criptogramas: Una ensoñación líquida

Art Project

“CRYPTOGRAMS: A Liquid Dreaminess” is an artistic project consisting of a series of large drawings and an audiovisual.

In this project the bodies become spectral beings, which emerge from the depths of memory to draw and externalize a very personal universe. It is like a representation of rusalka or samodiva – a magical being within the Bulgarian folk imagery that emerges from the work, uniting the traditions learned with the natural dreams. The dreamlike atmosphere created, is like a dream that collects the experience of the senses and projects the ghosts, hidden until now. The figures appear exiled from reality, as ephemeral beings, evoked by memory, invaded by nostalgia, floating in a melancholy daydream that draws memories…

This artistic project was created as a Master’s Project (Master of Art, Creation and Research) under the direction of Prof. Antonio Rabazas, Faculty of Fine Arts, University Complutense, Madrid.

In the button below you can download in PDF the Project presented as final master project.

 

Exhibited

  • Exhibition organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts, of the three official masters of the 2007-2008 academic year, in the exhibition hall of the Faculty (2008)
  • Exhibition of the Master of Arts, Creation and Research of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Complutense, Madrid, Cultural space MIRA, Municipal Board of Culture of the City Council of Pozuelo de Alarcón.
  • Exhibition, Premio Joven (XI Edition), Casa de America, Madrid (2008-2009).
  • Traveling exhibition, Premio Joven (XI Edition), Culture institute Leon (2009).
  • Traveling exhibition, Premio Joven (XI Edition), Municipal Museum of Valdepeñas (2009).
  • Exhibition, Tribeca Gallery, Madrid (2009).
  • “Together but not scrambled” Casa de la Cultura, Azuqueca de Henares (2009).
  • VI Graphic Award, UCM, 2009, Exhibition Hall of the Botanical Garden of the University of Complutense, Madrid.

“Liquid Dreaminess” 2008

The audiovisual work offers a journey through the memory, revealing a very personal reflection, in search of an identity lost in exile. The work deals with concepts such as home, origin, migration, memory and identity.
The protagonist tries to get close to what once was her home, and meanwhile looking to revive her memories and to reveal her origins. Therefore, she gets nearer to her childhood, where ancient legends talk about mystical creatures like the mermaids, where church bells talk about the history that is hiding in the forests and water whispers fairytales of old times quietly. In a search of some feeling of belonging, however slight it might be the heroine tries to feel at home at least in her dreams, to regain her connections and roots, and not to sink into oblivion.

 

Realization and Idea: Denica Veselinova
Sound: Denica Veselinova
Sound Consultant: John Yates
Image and Sound Editing: Denica Veselinova
Acknowledgments: Kristina Veselinova and Rafael Velasco

 

The audiovisual begins with the poem by Octavio Paz ‘Calle’ manuscript on the image:

Here is a long and silent street.
I walk in blackness and I stumble and fall
and rise, and I walk blind, my feet
trampling the silent stones and the dry leaves.
Someone behind me also tramples, stones, leaves:
if I slow down, he slows;
if I run, he runs I turn : nobody.
Everything dark and doorless,
only my steps aware of me,
I turning and turning among these corners
which lead forever to the street
where nobody waits for, nobody follows me,
where I pursue a man who stumbles
and rises and says when he sees me : nobody.

 

Original text:

Es una calle larga y silenciosa.
Ando en tinieblas y tropiezo y caigo
y me levanto y piso con pies ciegos
las piedras mudas y las hojas secas
y alguien detrás de mí también las pisa:
si me detengo, se detiene;
si corro, corre. Vuelvo el rostro: nadie.
Todo está oscuro y sin salida,
y doy vueltas y vueltas en esquinas
que dan siempre a la calle
donde nadie me espera ni me sigue,
donde yo sigo a un hombre que tropieza
y se levanta y dice al verme: nadie.

Exhibition

  • The Artwork won the Prize “Most Promising Video Artist” 2009, in the International Festival of Contemporary Audio-visual & New Media Art MADATAC.
  • The video was presented, thanks to MADATAC, to the video art Festival Miden of Kalamata, Greece (July 2012).
  • MADATAC participated with a program file, called VIDEOsPAIN. MADATAC also presented the piece in Digital Art Festival 2012 in Taipei, (Taiwan).
  • Exhibition of the art work in the television program Transfera No 31 by Canal Autor (13, 18 February 2009, Madrid).
  • “Electrocuciones”, Electronic Arts Festival, Cultural space Foro de Pozuelo, Madrid (2010).
  • Interview in Artecreha
  • More information in Artecreha