Friday 27 November 2015

Tania Pérez Córdova / Francesco Pedraglio - Descripción de una entrevista - Parallel Oaxaca - 20nov/17dic 2015


Descripción de una entrevista
Tania Pérez Córdova / Francesco Pedraglio
20nov - 17dic, 2015

FACTS

-    He moves a temporary wall previously constructed to cover one of the two doors and blocks one entrance
-    With a knife, he cuts a frame into the temporary wall and partially reveals the street behind
-    He starts talking
-    Imagine 9 possible scenarios for Calle Santo Tomas
-    Using the leftover cut off from the temporary wall, he traces the contour of a frame on a large sheet of paper
-    Scenario 1: a man walking down a busy market with a crate of avocados on his left shoulder
-    Using a brush, he glues a sheet of paper to the wall
-    Scenario 2: a fleeting love story… he draws the contour, glues paper to the wall
-    Scenario 3: a detective story… drawing and glueing
-    Scenario 4: the beginning of a novel as a yet-to-be-written story… drawing and glueing
-    Then again: the intermezzo story, the patriotic story, the filmic story, the dark story, the surreal story… all while glueing and pasting.
-    In the meantime, night falls over the whole scene
-    Outside on the street, a parked car with hazard lights on
-    The alarm goes off
-    She lowers the drivers window
-    A yellow frame is fitted onto the temporary wall as to perfectly frame the street, the sidewalk, the parked car, and her
-    Now turn of about 180 degrees on your own axis
-    The 10th scenario is about her dream and goes more or less like this:
-    A man and a woman, a dusty road, a car and a gun