Roberto et les autres
Lola Gonzŕlez
14.04.2016 - 04.06.2016, opening 14.04.2016
Summer Camp, 2015
HD colour video, stereo sound
8 min 52
ed 3 + 1
collection MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (FR) and Kadist Art Foundation
Veridis Quo, 2016
HD video
15 min
ed 5 + 1
production Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest and Ars Futura. With the support of CNAP-Centre National des Arts Plastiques
collection IAC-FRAC Rhône Alpes, Villeurbanne (FR)
Each film Lola Gonzàlez produces, makes the next one up. The complete set portrays an obsession, as dreams that'd never cease to return night after night, affecting day-time as well. The apparent lightness emerging from her first "buddy movies" has disappeared in favor of a desire that's more open to the world. Not unlike magical rituals, Lola Gonzàlez's films open on those young people facing outward, toward the landscape. Are they able to see a sign out there, they'll all read into in the same fashion? Each time, a deeply moving synchronicity sets in, creating a situation where communication channels through the bodies that brush by or voluntarily touch one another. In the two most recent opuses, Summer Camp (2015) and Veridis Quo (2016), a quasi military training goes along a mesmerizing litany (in the first one) or the traumatic noises of a sea storm (in the second). If Summer Camp is a long, collective prayer, Veridis Quo looks like the last supper of an enigmatic troupe guided to a cliff matching the size of this common dream. The murmur of the stone, if it were audible, would say something like this: I am the route that was sung by others before you. I am the rock of your ancestors. I am the sacred knowledge and the grave your children will stand by. It will begin again.