We are happy to announce the collaboration with Aimée Zito Lema.
At LOOP Barcelona 2022 we will present a new video-work by Aimée 15-17 November Almanac Hotel Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 619-621, Barcelona
Please check out the website of LOOP for the full program of the fair.
The Sea as Common Ground (From a Wave Point of View), 2022, Two-channel video installation
Aimée Zito Lema (1982) was born in Amsterdam and raised in Buenos Aires. Aimée has a research based practice. She works with archival material and personal memory. Her projects seek to investigate history as it is passed through generations, and in turn, as a tool to rethink the present. Growing up between Argentina and the Netherlands, Zito Lema is influenced by the concept of movement: of the body in space, across geographies; and of the past into the present. She combines a sensitive curiosity with a strong feeling for beauty and the image as a multi layered phenomenon. She lives and works in Amsterdam.
The Sea as Common Ground (From a Wave Point of View), 2022, Two-channel video installation
The Sea as Common Ground (From a Wave Point of View)’, 2022 is a two-channel video installation and the most recent video work by Aimée Zito Lema. In this work, she brings out stories and histories related to life with the sea in Whitstable (GB) and the wider region. She conducted interviews with residents and researched documents in the archives of the Whitstable Museum. In her video installation, she weaves together stories of human interaction with stories of solidarity, she connects history with the present, and zooms in on the specific context of, for example, extreme flooding, the seawall, the appropriation of land (the coast and its economic exploitation), and the topical theme of migration.
Her ‘collage of voices’ is derived from existing stories and literature, as well as from interviews with members of the local community and specialist professionals. These interviews and encounters are sometimes historical or technical, and sometimes they focus on memories and subjective experiences. The poetic dimension of the script unfolds when these testimonies are heard, read live during a performance in Whitstable that was accompanied by sound and image. The narrative script was performed by four students from the University for the Creative Arts – Luna Guo, Tara Birks, Chrissy Swain and Cheri Allcock. Zito Lema used the recordings of the performance, combined with a new recorded voice-over by Staci Bu Shea, as well as the archive photographs for the final video work.
Zito Lema collaborated on this project with various disciplines, such as musician and composer Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt), costume designer Catoo Kemperman and writer Persis Bekkering. The video work is based on a collaboration with the Whitstable Museum and the Douglas West Collection – in particular the collection of images detailing the floods of 1897, 1949 and [removed];The concept for the presentation is based on the urgency expressed in the work, the topicality of the subjects depicted. Aimée Zito Lema combines this with a special sense of beauty.
Presentation at LOOP with support of the Mondriaan Foundation
The Sea as Common Ground (From a Wave Point of View), 2022, Two-channel video installation