Ale Montiel - (Argentina)
Cuando el río arde
SYNOPSIS
When the river burns
Before an immensity of aridity and desolation, where before there was a lush riverbed of water, I propose a poetic action, where fire is presented as an element to transmute and heal an absent river, a sleeping river. I light a fire that results in a 50-meter flame that burns for a short period of time. Fire is presented in its polysemic, plastic, dynamic, past and present value, with the intention of regenerating an absent cycle. A fire-memory that comes to remember and propose a relationship with the world and life closely linked to the Earth, but, above all, with the territory. Fire, as a door of time, as a vision of Mesoamerican ecosophy, which involves the possibility of invoking and summoning the wisdom of nature and the memory of the river.
BIO
Ale Montiel was born in 1979 in Córdoba Capital, Argentina. Bachelor’s degree in painting from UNC. He researches around the concept of the body as the first territory, works hybrid processes between photography, video performance and installations, and has had solo and group exhibitions since 1997. He participated in national and international projects and exhibitions. He was awarded the third prize at the International Art Biennial of Río Negro – Valcheta. Selected in the Salon 2021 Federico Klemm XXV, Buenos Aires. He participated in the Bienalsur, in the collective exhibition “Memorias rebeldes”, at the Museo Eduardo Minnicelli, Río Gallegos. Selected in the Salón Nacional 2022-2023 and in the Salón Litoral 2022 with video performance works as well as in international video festivals in Brazil, Colombia, India and Chicago. Lives in El Calafate, Santa Cruz.
NETWORKS
Fecha
2022
Lugar
Aconquija, Catamarca, Argentina.
Evento
Residencia Raíces
Video
Gerardo Artaza
Foto
Cecilia Melnik
Edición
José Melnik
