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digital animation 1:12 min loop outdoor video projection on a building’s façade San Juan, PR 1999 “Time (1999), a repeating digital animation, centered its images within a circular shape, one quickly dissolving into the next. Dry, cracked earth melted into images of hands brushing sand, and then into an image of the artist, curled into a fetal position. In the middle of each image, a string of numbers that had date-like references, but were not in any logical sequence, ran like a counter. The work felt like a clock. The rapid-fire pace of this succession of images and stream of numbers alluded to the “time” of the title, passing all too quickly. In its original, one-evening presentation, this work was enormous. It originated from across a major avenue, and was projected onto the former building façade of the Galería Raices. The building had been sold, and was under construction during the projection. Galería Raices, which represented Collazo Llorens’s work for seven years, had moved to another location. Thus her piece implied change and transition, with images from memory surging and cascading in her mind’s eye.“ excerpt from Nayda Collazo-Llorens: The Logic of Dreams, by Deborah Cullen, published in the catalog of the exhibition Here and There: Six Artists from San Juan at El Museo del Barrio, NY, 2001 |
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