ALEJANDRA POMBO SU: HOLES

Presentation by Alejandra Pombo Su as part of her residency at Bulegoa z/b. Her proposal What Looks At Me Surroundings Me was selected for residency along with Vida Neus a veces by María Cerdá Acebrón in our 2021 open call. The jury was comprised by Iratxe Jaio (artist), Laura Vallés Vilches (curator, editor and researcher) and the members of Bulegoa z/b.

ALEJANDRA POMBO SU: HOLES

In this, the first of my presentations at Bulegoa z/b, I will be sharing my latest films, It’s Called Listen (2016), Wild Palms (2017) and Fade to Black (2021). Together, the three films make up the trilogy HOLES, in which I experiment with an emotional narrative centered around relationships and their complexities. The idea is to attune to a rhythm which will break away from context and the world of the determinate and give way to a connection with the “something else” that exceeds our gaze. Something that cannot be shown, exhibited, or opened to view, but has to be discovered. The innocence of discovery which speaks of an absence, of the desire for something, to want to reach, to touch something, to find ourselves face to face with an emptiness and to enjoy it. The lack of information is part of its beauty. Because there are things that make themselves known and others that have to be discovered. A history of the present cannot be information.

During my residency at Bulegoa z/b I will be working on new audiovisual material relating to my recent years’ research on the scream, in connection with animal becoming as an experience of being (ser) in being there (estar). The being (ser) as place.

Alejandra Pombo Su (Santiago de Compostela, 1979) obtained a Degree in Fine Arts with the Universidad Complutense (Madrid). She extended her studies in Barcelona with a Masters in Digital Arts at Universidad Pompeu Fabra and then the PEI Independent Study Program, MACBA. Doctor in Fine Arts with a thesis on the paradoxes and effects of the introduction of the notion of performance in the field of art. Pombo Su has taken part in projects such as What is Third (Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2015), Primer Proforma (MUSAC, León, 2010) and Mugatxoan (2004-2009), Laboral (Gijón), Fundação Serralves (Porto) and Arteleku (San Sebastian). She has also been a resident artist at I-Park Foundation (Connecticut, US); Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida, US); PACT-Zollverein (Essen, Germany); MAC (A Coruña); Casa Encendida (Madrid); CA2M (Madrid); and Ranchito, Matadero (Madrid) among others. She has recently been awarded the FMJJ 2021 Artist Residency on their first open call.