ANGEL VERGARA

With his video works, Vergara poetically questions the role of the artist and the economy of the work of art. One can see how whether or not recognisable scenes originating in broad range of media are slowly painted over, resulting in the layer of paint manifesting itself as a fleece over the moving image. As a result, the works are charged with a specific temporality, through the constant review of their structure and condition, subject to the connections with the colours of paint and the underlying reality. Vergara did the same by choosing reality itself as the subject, by registering the contours of passers-by with paint on glass plates. The result stands up as an autonomous objects, whether it is a digital construction, a painting mounted as a film or a film mounted as a painting. In both cases the result cannot be dissociated from its decisive performative character.