Ines G. Aparicio
1 February 2021 – 30 April 2021
Asturias, 1990
Inés G. Aparicio has a degree in fine arts and is specialized in education and development cooperation.
In continuous movement. Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Porto and Madrid are some of the cities that he most liked to live in, but above all places there is the Sahara. The Sahrawi refugee camps are where he has spent the longest time developing his personal and professional activity. He has been a teacher at the Abidin Kaid Saleh Film School, participated in filming, been part of the FiSahara team and the Bubisher project.
In 2020 she returned to Asturias and lives in Gijón, she works as an editorial layout designer and in the creation of audiovisual material, and she also participates in the MUSOC coordinating team. Meanwhile, she combines her activism in different social causes with the development of personal and collective projects that range from radio to collage, including photography and film. Most of her works are linked to migration and memory recording, highlighting her co-direction of the film Leyuad
Project in residence
Cantar un batallón
Cantar un batallón an animated short that was born from an attempt at audiovisual recording by my grandmother Esperanza who tends to sing her stories and soon sang the lyrics of Batallón de Modistillas.
“Like someone who finds a treasure and wants to appraise it, I began to investigate the origin of this song and in that process I had two great discoveries: That my grandmother did not have as impeccable memory as I thought and she mixed two lyrics in a single song and that The person who popularized the song “Batallón de modistillas” in the second era of cuplé was Lilian de Celis, a great artist who was a few kilometers from my house in Arriondas where I was recording with my grandmother. With the affirmative and manifest enthusiasm on the part of the cupletista, this film was launched, which interweaves super 8 footage, animated collages and archive images accompanied by the talks of these two women in which incredible characters appear, so grotesque that they seem taken from a magical realism novel”
Living memory of a past time through a song that, with some arrangements, could well be a feminist anthem of the 21st century.
Selected project from the 1st Call for Artistic Residencies 2021
