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María Cañas

21 November 2016 – 26 November 2016

María Cañas, archivist from Seville, audiovisual iconoclast, media savage, invites with her works to reflect on the strange mixture of amusement and tremendism, of gloomy and sensual imagery that surrounds us, operating in iconographic cannibalism. She practices a “videomachy” (videoguerrilla, militant cinephagy) that introduces itself into clichés and genres to dynamite them. D. in Aesthetics and History of Philosophy at the University of Seville and a master’s degree in Digital Postproduction C.E.A. She directs Animalario TV Producciones, a creative space dedicated to the culture of recycling, appropriationism and artistic experimentation; a resistance to distraction in pursuit of the cultivation of inner fire. His art has been exhibited in festivals, fairs, events, art centers, museums and national and international galleries. This year he is the recipient of the First Video Universe Residency Grant awarded by LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, the Xixón International Film Festival and HAMACA.

Project in residence

Almas de metal

Artificial robots naturally…

Nature trumps fiction? Artificial trumps nature?

A naturally artificial world.

A disturbing showcase of automatons, their adaptability and biomimicry.

María Cañas is the winner of the FICXLAB award organized by the Gijón International Film Festival and LABoral.

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