Wake Up!!! (Despierta)
Wake Up!!! (Despierta)
RedLine Contemporary Art Center
Denver (CO) - United States
September 8 to October 29, 2017

Artwork
Wake Up !!! (Despierta!)
Video installation

Exhibition
Latin American Endless Transformation

Idea and Realization
Andrea Juan & Gabriel Penedo

Camera / Camera
Andrea Juan & Guillermo Galarraga

Music
Roger Subirana Mata - "Point of no return "

Production
SM Pro Art Circle & RedLine Contemporary Art Center

Setting up
Whit Sibley and the RedLine Contemporary Art Center team

General Management
Louise Martorano
RedLine Executive Director

Curator
Marisa Caichiolo
The video installation Wake Up !!! (Despierta), was designed by Andrea Juan and Gabriel Penedo and is based on environmental issues.
Wake up !!! It is a two-channel video installation with water pump, timers, bed, blankets, curtains and many liters of water.
Wake Up !!! appeals to the viewer, through poetics and images, to awaken to an increasingly worrying reality.
Wake up !!! settles in our most intimate place, in our bedroom ...
It is an allegory that tells us that the consequences of this disaster, which today seem still distant, will come to us, modifying and affecting, dramatically, our own lives.

Introductory text from the video
One small drop falls and then another and another and another.
Thus, drop by drop, large amounts of ice are lost every second. The poles are melting.
We, meanwhile, continue with our lives, with our dreams, as if this could never affect us.
The dripping continues and vast frozen expanses have already been lost.
Arctic is at minimum levels, Antarctica has lost Larsen A, B and, recently, C ice shelves, glaciers have retracted and the oceans raise their level.
One day, not too far, the effects will come directly to us...
It's time to wake up !!
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