Israel Martínez
2010
Mixed media installation
3 minutes 8 seconds video-sound loop, television, two puffs, two speakers

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In this work, Martinez approaches from a light-hearted and ironic language the controversy that arose a few years ago with Gaspar Noé's film "Irreversible", by the harsh and long rape scene Alexandra (Monica Bellucci) suffers, leading to conflicting opinions among the male and female sectors. The piece recreates one of the many discussions that could have been generated around the film, and although at first glance it might seem as a simple staging - with speakers resting in a puff like they were people - for those who can break through the wall that is build by the rape sequence and the somewhat coarse language in the conversation, they can feel reflections like the questioning of the role that our personal moral has when evaluating intellectually what we see and hear, without being dragged by the flow of images and sounds that permeate the cinema, the art and life itself.