Proyecto para EFIMERA


Somewhere and everywhere
Action with a private security guard and a telescope on a parking lot
2009

Un guardia de seguridad privada que ha sido contratado para el evento arriba al mismo con un telescopio casero en su mano. Se coloca en la mitad del lugar y hace uso del telescopio para ver las estrellas en el cielo.

http://efimeranicaragua.wordpress.com/

Oscar Santillan

Works from my first crit at VCU


Buried sparkle
Installation
A light glowing through the wall
2009


The compassionate hunter
Photography
2009






The broken land
Rock, thread, levitating ground and living plants
2009


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Statement - Contact info

The gap between the possible and the impossible, between reality and fiction, is the creative territory from where my practice departs.
The repertoire of strategies for exploring this terrain has, in recent years, grown to include means such as: deceiving looks (i.e. a blurred video image, not produced through digital manipulation, but through the action of breathing on the camera lens); complex processes producing simple results (i.e. a colorful photographic composition as evidence of the effects of pigments injected into my own seminal vesicles); and, elaborate visual narratives (i.e. the documentation of durational actions, edited into highly compressed videos or slide projections).
Then, these strategies interweave with topics, bearing a more intricate cartography. In fact, there are two very prominent topics in my recent works: masculinity, or more specifically, masculinity from the sensibility of romanticism, something between Thoreau and P.T. Barnum. The second issue is a more subtle one, which I am tempted to call “phenomenological ethics,” where a physical action in the world is, in itself, a political statement.
Within the map of my utopian desires, there is a device able to fill the gap between clocks and calendars, and a rebellion in which the crowd whispers their demands.

Contact: santillano@vcu.edu
Oscar Santillan is represented by dpm