[PROGRAMME ARCHIVES] Center for contemporary images - Geneva - Centre pour l'image Contemporaine

Tanua Ruiz, La Plaza I., 2002

The structure of her project “La Plaza II” is modeled on the cyclical structure of time and space. Through this work the artist wanted to develop the theme of the will, that blind power of life that makes a plaything of humans. The artist’s latest works are space-time structures that examine the limits of the frame and offer images in perpetual movement. The piece presents a series of pedestrians who were filmed in isolation. Here they are seen eternally walking on without ever reaching the limit of their world since the computer topography in which they move is based on the torus figure.
Nothing happens and yet a dramatic tension emerges from our expectation of some event.
The film also deals with those repeated, even daily encounters in city life that are never of any consequence.

Born in 1973 in Santaigo de Chile, Chile. Lives and works in Paris, France.

Exhibitions (selection)
2004
La Plaza II., Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
2003
Places, Nordic Panorama, Malmö, Sweden
2002
Morphoscopie du transitoire, DigitART, La Villette Numérique, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, France
2001
La casa del perro, Intefilm, international short fiIm festival, Berlin, Germany
2000
Les lieux du fait, ISEA 2000, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Paris, France
1999
Ruiro Siki, Milia 99 – Pavillon des nouveaux talents, Cannes, France
Ruiro Siki, Institut of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
1998
Cannis, Tokyo Film and Video Festival, Tokyo, Japon