TRANSHUMANCE
HD _7’14’’ _2019
by Helena Inverno, Verónica Castro and Bouchra Ouizguen
funding Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Honorable Mention FUSO - International Videoart Festival 2021
Based on a system of transdisciplinary action in a nomadic body, TRANSHUMANCE brings together lexicons, cohabits research and shares paths, forming a meeting point between three artists immersed in their current practices, where dance, sound and moving image converge. Content, materials and sensations are pollinated; while the river, wind, dunes, and a bird and a rock, breathe.
The video TRANSHUMANCE revealed to us an acute and meaningful view, in a visual composition, of invisible border lines that, between the intentional monochrome imagery and the compass of sound, leads us to a fluid migration between spaces and the primordial elements that occupy them. As the authors declare: “contents, matters and sensations pollinate, while river, wind, dunes, and a bird and a stone, breathe”.
Margarida Chantre, EDP Foundation / Art Collection
WATER DRAWINGS
HD _11’ loop _ 2014
by Helena Inverno
support L Praino Project
premiered at Festival Verão Azul 2014
Direct
sound
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An exhibition composed of four works looks into the construction and perception of time during rituals.
A group of men, known as the Men of the Palanquin, describe the unexplained force that leads them to heightened emotion and tears.
THE FORCE OF THE PALANQUIN
HD_13’ loop_ 2015
by Helena Inverno and Verónica Castro
support Entre Imagem
production C.M.L. / Loulé Municipality
funded by DR Algarve
premiered at Convento de Santo António / Museu Municipal de Loulé
The sacred cobble path of the Monte da Nossa Senhora da Piedade holds the sacrifices and joy of all those who ascend and descend it.
ATTUNE
HD_12’ loop_ 2015
The Men of the Palanquin, adjust the palanquin to their individual and collective bodies during the annual testing of the palanquin of the Sovereign Mother.
THE FORCE OF THE MEMORY
HD_2’23’’ loop _ 2015
”There is no turning back”, this is the “leaving moment when the Men of the Palanquin,and their friends spend their last minutes before carrying the palanquin of the Sovereign Mother up the steep sacred hill.
WITH YOU
WAV_ 24’33’’ audio on headphones _ 2015
The Men of the Palanquin , the “Artistas de Minerva” band of the Sociedade Filarmónica, and the participants of the festivities march together leading the Sovereign Mother to the top of the sacred hill.
SCRATCHED EYE
U-MATIC _1’43’’ _ 1995
by Helena S. Inverno
support Central Saint Martins College
premiered at Fringe Festival Edinburgh 1996
GLITCHING EQUIPMENT
CHALLENGING FILM EXISTENCES
SOHO RUBBISH MAGNETIC SURFACES
MADE VIEWING SOUNDS
SMILE
U-MATIC _11’29’’ _ 1996
by Helena S. Inverno
support Central Saint Martins College
premiered at BAFTA, London 1996