Adriana Varella

+ In "Spur Turkey", instead of the images being suspended and trimmed by figures within a white rectangle, as in traditional painting and film images, here they intentionally fell inside the canvas.

I consider discussing few points in common between painting and video, such as the rectangle of the projection screen (the support in both), composition, perspective, supports of planes, angles, and texture of images.
Spur was a project I developed in Germany (Munich), Turkey (Cappadocia), Switzerland (Zurich), Brazil (Bahia), and USA (San Francisco / New York City).
The process consisted of holding the canvas with one hand and dragging it over the floor, wall or ceiling of various places.
This action caused the canvases to be impregnated with the traces of those areas, for example: mud from caves, desert residues, train tracks… With the other hand, at the same time, the process was recorded.
I hung the canvas on the wall only from one point, so that all of it formed folds and furrows.
Finally I projected the images of the process on the canvas.

The process consisted of holding the canvas with one hand and dragging it over the floor, wall or ceiling of various places.
This action caused the canvases to be impregnated with the traces of those areas, for example: mud from caves, desert residues, train tracks… With the other hand, at the same time, the process was recorded.
I hung the canvas on the wall only from one point, so that all of it formed folds and furrows.
Finally I projected the images of the process on the canvas.

In "Spur Brooklyn", instead of the images being suspended and trimmed by figures within a white rectangle, as in traditional painting and film images, here they intentionally fell inside the canvas.