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Sub-aquatic photography and video works.

Underwater photography and video projects that explore the qualities and behavior of objects devoid of gravity and the artistic potential that this entails. In a frame reminiscent of Flemish vanitas and the European pictorial tradition of still life in general, the artist generates scenes that border on the impossible or absurd, while pinpointing our affective relationships with objects and the cultural memory they evoke.

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Sub Acuatic VIDEO

A glass of fruit
2016
HD Video (excerpt)

"A Glass of Fruit" refers to Caravaggio’s painting, who pioneered a new perspective on the objects portrayed at table level. Working with the limitations of gravity and the sculptural possibilities of water, Almanza Pereda decided to shoot his still-life scenes underwater and play with perspective. We see a double scene divided by a glass sheet, where different objects and fruits float and sink at the time. These works —apparently unstable, immaterial, or on the cusp of disaster— are governed by a singular, uncanny logic, highlighting our affective relationships with the objects and the cultural memory they evoke.

Common Abnormalities

In The Near Future

2021
10:30 min HD video

Common Abnormalities In The Near Future works like an offbeat interlude between his first and third underwater works. It is a unique and necessary b side which contrasts the romantic nature of its b&w predecessor and the colorful beauty of its successor. Almanza !s choice of 16:9 vertical aspect ratio enhances the vertiginous nature of his dramatic plot. He shows and embraces failure as a two-way street unbound by gravity. A chaotic cinematic dance reminiscent of Buster Keaton’s silent films. A dramatic classical piano works as our main chronicler guiding us through the chapter-by-chapter story line. With Common Abnormalities In The Near Future Almanza Pereda unveils himself as the storyteller he always was. His static stories – three-dimensional works – have always just hinted of chaotic possibilities while his moving works show us how wrong we were to have even tried to predict them at all.​
 

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