Belén Cerezo

Belén Cerezo is an artist- researcher, Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao. Cerezo is based in Nottingham and Bilbao.

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The Territory between the Images

In ‘The Territory between the Images,’ I used a hand-held video camera to film two types of photographic materials belonging to the land registry. Additionally, I recorded navigation via Google Earth through the rural territory of the province of Leon, Spain. The title of this video-installation, ‘The Territory between the Images,’ alludes to the new understandings of this territory that are produced through a taxonomic juxtaposition of archival images. When I started this project, I was pondering rural areas and the interplay of history and geography, particularly the issue of massive depopulation in rural Spain since the second half of the 20th century. This is a noteworthy phenomenon in recent Spanish history, as most of the Spanish population before the 1950s was rural. In ‘The Territory between the Images,’ micro-history and macro-history intersect.

four channel video (10 min, silent)

link to the videos

Este proyecto se mostró en la exposición La metodología del proyecto en el MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, en el 2012. Esta exposición mostraba los proyectos artísticos en curso surgidos a partir de un taller dirigido por el artista Antoni Muntadas en colaboración con Alfredo Puente en MUSAC entre enero y junio de 2012. El MUSAC edito una publicación que recoge los diferentes proyectos planteados. Podéis acceder a la publicación aquí. Mi texto se titula Hacia unas imágenes nómadas del territorio.

The territory between the images, Leon, 2012 was showed atthe exhibition The methodology of the project at the MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in 2012. This exhibition showed the ongoing artistic projects resulted from a workshop conducted by the artist Antoni Muntadas in collaboration with  Alfredo Puente in MUSAC from January to June 2012. MUSAC edited a publication with the different projects. Here is the publication and this is a link to the English version of this text Towards some nomadic images of the territory.