{"id":361,"count":2,"description":"\u00abParres\u00bb is a series composed of three performative videos, developed in a 35mm film format, evoking\u2014in an almost poetic way\u2014the Italian neorealist movement. This movement, with its extensive videography that attempted to emulate an endless sequence shot, sought to capture the most immediate and raw reality of a society. Just as Italian neorealism reflected a country trying to reconstitute itself after the war, Parres attempts to capture, with a performative and documentary approach, the reality of the workers on the margins of Cuernavaca, Mexico.\r\nIn the work \u00abParres\u00bb by the artist Melanie Smith, the camera not only focuses on the inhabitants, but also their daily tasks. Away from large cities and their overcrowded jobs, these workers seek to survive with informal activities, such as washing windows. This activity fills the screen and stands as the epicenter of a community that, like many decentralized points in Latin America, lives its own reality, a distant dystopia that, similar to Orwell\u2019s stories, reveals that inequality and state abandonment They transcend the pages of a book.\r\nAnother crucial aspect in this audiovisual composition is the choice of the soundscape, which acts as a dream tear. Instead of romanticizing poverty, it seeks to portray it, mimic it and transform it into a metaphor for the crack and tear that it means to inhabit a dystopia forgotten even by the Mexican government itself. In the photographic section, it is fascinating how Smith uses the craft of window cleaning to show that Parres exists, is on the map of Mexico and needs to be seen. However, it also suggests that its history, like window dressing, can easily be wiped clean and forgotten. In these brief moments, the workers come to the foreground and, with a subtle but powerful gesture, soap and erase the screen, symbolizing that although this performance is exhibited in London, under the critical gaze of those who consider art as a mere museum object, they will continue there, inhabiting the border, walking through the dystopia of Parres and continuing with their work, perhaps hoping that their community will finally be discovered and helped.\r\n\r\nText: Nicol\u00e1s Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez","link":"https:\/\/dev.azhr.tv\/proyector.info\/sede\/nua-lugar-de-convivencia-es\/","name":"Nua \u2013 Lugar de Convivencia","slug":"nua-lugar-de-convivencia-es","taxonomy":"venue","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.azhr.tv\/proyector.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/venue\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.azhr.tv\/proyector.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/venue"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.azhr.tv\/proyector.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/venue"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.azhr.tv\/proyector.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?venue=361"},{"href":"https:\/\/dev.azhr.tv\/proyector.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/screening?venue=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}