Ximena Cuevas: El Mundo del Silencio (The Silent World)
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Collection: Single Artist Compilations
Tags: Found Footage, Gender, Hollywood, Humor, Latino/Chicano, Love, Media Analysis, Mental Landscape, Performance, Sexuality
Cuevas is obsessed with the micro movements of daily life, with the border between truth and fiction, with the "impossibility" of reality. Her work relentlessly seeks out the layers of lies covering the everyday representations of reality and systematically explores the fictions of national identity and gender.
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Turistas deals with the letdown of a world that is pre-mediated and post-digested—a video travelling guide that updates the 19th century artist's Grand Tour and downgrades it to 21st century not-so-Grand status. —Maria-Christina...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: expedition/travel, humor, latino/chicano |
"I made this video after assisting at a conference where the artists acted like flies in a barnyard. They gathered tropical fruits to make it less disagreeable for themselves." —Ximena Cuevas This title is also available on ...
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This is a video of musical terror where I superficially—this is the beginning of a larger project—look at one of the Mexican phenomena that horrifies me the most: internalized racism, being ashamed of one's own roots. The fantasy of waking up...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: latino/chicano, race |
"You don't have to go to Hawaii to be in Hawaii. Nor do you have to be sensual to feel sensual. You look the way you are supposed to look. The sensuality of Hawaii completely fascinates me in this video." —Ximena Cuevas This title...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: expedition/travel |
As sad as it can be to be trapped in a TV show, singing words you don't even know the meaning of. This title is also available on Ximena Cuevas: El...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: television |
“Take back the airwaves: Mexico’s video art doyenne Ximena Cuevas books herself onto the tabloid talk show Tombola (Raffle), toying at first with whimsical deconstruction until she turns the whole affair on its head by seizing the...
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The vacuum cleaner becomes the device of the feminist 'liberation', or the monster that devours us. —Insite 2000 program, San Diego Museum of Art This title is also available on ...
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"Emptiness: I just watched your latest video, Colchones Individuales (Single Beds), Volume 1: Desolacion, and I wanted to write you about it. Oddly, Single Beds sums up much of what I have been thinking lately. In these times of...
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"Hell is oneself. There's nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to." —T.S. Eliot "La Puerta makes us spin out of control in the long and cruel corridors of an institutional nightmare." —Insite 2000 program,...
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"The life of objects intrigues me. Apparently inanimate, they adopt the souls, actions and lifestyles of their keepers. Here, a bed testifies to what goes on behind the closed door of a decent family's bedroom." —Ximena Cuevas This...
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Erase the 1940s. The desire to better appearances. To try to record a love story. It's in this way that a facial can become the biggest remaining pleasure. This title is also available on...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: body |
The innocence of creating a mirror, only to repeatedly crush it underfoot.
Collection: Single Titles Tags: conceptual art, youth/childhood |
A soft-focus close-up of mouth and lips is set to the sounds of lovemaking. A soft-porn video on how easy it is to get porn. This title is also available on...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: sexuality |
"The palms of Lana Turner's hands were full of scars; the technique she used in order to achieve melodrama was to tighten her fists, digging her fingernails into them until she began to cry. Day after day, soap opera actresses smear Vick's...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: latino/chicano |
Blind man: “It is bad to be alone.” The Creature: “Alone, bad.” —The Bride of Frankenstein It can be so bad to be alone that even an artificial heat is better than none. This title is also available on...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: autobiography, mental landscape |
Colorful lines follow the gestures of a conductor leading the orchestra until he disappears just at the point of crescendo. As the music slows, he starts to reappear. A sketch as a tribute to Walt Disney. This title is also available...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: consumer culture, humor |
After working in solitude at the studio, the artist leaves, uncomfortable with the idea of having to put on a face for the art world, where they expect you to say something articulate in order to grab the curator's attention. This title is...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: humor |
A fireworks display heralds the appearance of our heroine. She walks a hotel corridor with balloons held aloft and champagne on call. But then she stumbles. The perils of success. This title is also available on...
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Dorothy doesn't reach her dream of the Emerald City. Rather, she will have already been over the rainbow by the time she arrives at the worst corner in Kansas. This title is also available on...
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