Trébede, 2020
Video, colour and sound, 16:9, 3’51”
BilbaoArte Foundation Collection
Registry No.: 2020.425.1
This piece is the culmination of eight months of work during the artist’s residency at BilbaoArte, and it marks the beginning of a practical research process on the displacement of the point of view to the object, which will last until 2023. During this period and within the same project called MAYFLY. CHICO CIEGO, CHICO CIEGO, the following video pieces are created: Trébede (2020), Un morreo fino (2020), Intérpretes amenos de canciones chuscas (2022), and Batalla campal de botellas (2023).
The recording of the piece took place in August 2020 in San Román de la Cuba (Palencia), with the help of childhood friends as the recording team. For this piece, a rotating iron tool with several strings was used, which generates the rotation of the camera. A counterweight (a chandelier glass piece) attached to the camera ensures that the lens always faces the center of the rotation. The entire piece is recorded in a continuous shot without cuts. The sound is the original one captured by the camera during this recording. The journal Eremuak No. 8 includes a text titled Distancia Circular that discusses the energetic structure of this work.
Ander Pérez Puelles (Llodio, 1996) studies Fine Arts and the Master’s in Research and Creation at the Faculty of Arts of UPV/EHU. Ander’s practice is characterized by his intention to create “circulation structures” in his pieces, through which energy can flow and occur. This way of working has been marked by a clear tendency toward working with videos that are part of processes typically lasting between 2 and 3 years. Although most of his work is formalized in video, part of his practice is focused on writing and the construction of installations. Puelles’ work specifically reflects on the recording device and the energetic structure that precedes and follows the construction of realities within the videos, with each piece responding to itself both as fiction and as reality.