Photo, Alfonso Herranz.

Proposal Nr. 19

Photo, Alfonso Herranz.

Obliged seeing

A witness of the famine in Ethiopia in 1984, 14 years old, Anno was watching television at home.

A memory of a scene seen on television. An image with which one is not directly related to, immaterial, elusive, without a location, floating through the air. One can't go back to the place where the drama happened. The television in the living room is the location where it happened, but the television shows already other images and there is nothing in this living room that refers to the drama.

How free is watching without engaging? In other words, can a witness become guilty because of what he sees?

Dislocating

For Madrid Abierto Anno wants to research a new angle of the reconstruction/proposal by investigating misplacement. The misplacement caused by the media. In this context, a well known media icon is moved outside his original context, from the television/internet of our living room to the public space. From the flat public space (tv) to the three-dimensional public space. By the conflict erasing from the misplacement, (I know this image, but what has it to do with this place?) the new situation reveals the viewer's absurd position, the absurd situation of being witness in the global media age.

Gift

Photo, Alfonso Herranz.