Why Not To Have Tea Before Blood Test

JOURNEYS END IN LOVERS MEETINGS

DAVID FERRANDO GIRAUT

one shot exhibition
Saturday, 22/01/2011 - 20:00


With Journeys End in Lovers Meetings David Giraut Ferrando (Spain, 1978) reinvents the imagination of young first love, tracing the portrait of a generational malaise.
Echoing the words of horror films produced in the 80s, the romantic encounter looks like a nightmare, while the actors are directly taken from a movie gore.
Gender Stereotypes are reworked revealing "the dark side of sexual liberation." (S. Zizek, Atonal Sexuality In The World, 2008)

Le projet comprend un film 16mm, une œuvre vidéo, une série de polaroids et un tourne-disque.


With Journeys End in Lovers Meetings, David Ferrando Giraut (Spain, 1978) reinvents the fantasies of adolescent first love stories, depicting the angst of a generation. Through the revival of words from old horror films of the 80s, romance turns into a nightmare as the actors come straight out of a gory movie. He models the stereotypes of the genre to reveal « the dark side of sexual liberation ». (S. Zizek, Sexuality in the Atonal World, 2008)

The project comprises a 16 mm film, a video work, a series of Polaroids and a turntable piece.

In Collaboration with
In collaboration with (or nothing)