Photography & Space, in the Image Festival Amman
As part of the Image Festival Amman organized by Darat Al Tasweer in partnership with many local and international institutes, Instituto Cervantes, the Embassy of Spain and the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts will host Spanish artist Rocío Villalonga who will present several activities that will take place between the 20th and the 25th.
On the 20th, 21st and 22nd of April, between 10 am and 3 pm., a workshop entitled Photography & Space will take place at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts. The exhibition of the resulting works will be opened at the Gallery on the 23rd of April at 6 pm and will run through the 30th of April. The opening hours of the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts is from Saturday until Thursday, from 9 am until 7 pm.
The exhibition Uprooting memories will be opened on the 25th of April at 6 pm at Instituto Cervantes in Amman and will run through the 30th of May. It can be visited during the opening hours of the Institute: Sundays to Thursdays, from 10 am until 7 pm.
This series is more like a visual poem. It is set up of different 8mm films taken by my father in the 1960s in different cities like, Montevideo, New York and London. I build a discourse with this material and shape images of the films in which the images overlap, merge and dialogue, and screen them with three analogue projectors. I record the resulting work in a digital format and save the frames that build up Uprooting memories to create a photographic series and accompany it by the resulting video.
Born in 1966 in Spain, Rocio holds a PhD in Fine Arts and is Professor at the Miguel Hernández University. Her interdisciplinary artistic work is in the field of installations, public art, photography and video, and addresses issues of a social, political and personal nature. She has managed various public art projects in specific social environments. Rocio held her first solo exhibition in 1987 at the Technological Institute of Bandug, Indonesia, followed by shows at such galleries as Punto, Alba Cabrera, Art al Rec and Lamarra. She has participated in art fairs including FIAC, ARCO, CHACO, the Biennial of Havana, Miami, Art Cologne, Chicago and others. Rocio has also exhibited her work in national museums such as, IVAM and MNCARS, and in museums and contemporary art centres in Asia, Europe and Latin America. She has more than 15 mentions and awards, as well as the Scholarship of the Academy of Spain in Rome, and the scholarship of the Casa de Velázquez.
