Pedro Garhel
ESPACIO "P"
(Spain)
"LA REGIÓN CENTRAL"
versión en español
La Región Central, a video-installation with projections onto screens that participants can walk through, is a poetic voyage of gradual discovery.
We are here: in this Hesperian suburban development. A city whose gardens have no golden apples, fear is the only thing that grows, space is reduced and objects lose their tangibility, escaping towards the impalpable. In the darkness of the streets, things appear then disappear; there are no longer distances, only depth. Immediately behind this area, the white nothingness begins... Here in the tunnel, the core of our existence, the material and the spiritual merge together in a passageway full of trails, where the web of paths is really a nexus of communication, and all those who pass through it suddenly shudder as if the soles of their feet had touched their own grave... In this tunnel, the invisible world vanishes and the soul, unleashed from time and its deceits, returns to the first night which is also the last.
Pedro Garhel (1952, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife) is an internationally recognized Spanish artist in the filed of media art. He is the founder and director of Espacio "P", a center of intermedia activities that has been active for over 16 years and co-founder along with Rosa Galindo of the group Deposito Dental. A professor of art and computers at the University of Salamanca in Spain, since the 70s he has realized exhibitions, installations, performances and concerts. He has received many awards and honorary mentions in international festivals and his work has been shown in museums and festivals all over the world including Dokumenta in Kassel, Ars Electronica, etc.
