This morning I attended an artist talk by Spanish artist Hondartza Fraga in the lecture theatre.
I originally attended the talk just because I was free and like attending these things when I can, so was surprised at the relevancy some of her pieces had with my own current thinking especially her video piece - Bearing Elsewhere.
A documentation of travel which took place during her residency in Trondheim, Norway at the beginning of 2010.
Incorporating a sound piece created by a friend she met whilst on residency, Farga managed to evoke more of the emotional starkness of the landscape. Created using a handmade native Swedish instrument, the sound track like the video was intentionally fragmented to hint more at the elusive nature of travel and the idea that detaching ones self from the scale of the landscape by making relatively small scale piece makes the pieces into souvenirs of the landscape.
The tonal elements of the piece were also really interesting.
As Farga was in Norway in winter, she was expecting the landscape to be bleak and dark, but what really confronted her was a bright white landscape that she used to her advantage in post-production by fading in and out of the white.
Farga's Saatchi profile can be found here.
