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PORTFOLIOJos Alejandro Lpez[ ]


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Jos Alejandro Lpez holds a BA in Cinema and TV from the Universidad Nacional

de Bogota (Colombia) and an MSc in Art and Technology from Chalmers University(Gothenburg, Sweden). He is an assistant professor at the Art Faculty of the Ponticia

Universidad Javeriana de Bogota. Currently, he is on sabbatical and is undertaking his PhD

studies in Visual Arts at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). His work has

been exhibited at different festivals around the world.

More information

www.videolopez.com

Contact

[email protected]

+55 (21) 97904-1524
http://www.videolopez.com/mailto:videorgb%40gmail.com?subject=mailto:videorgb%40gmail.com?subject=http://www.videolopez.com/


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Silenciar[silence][video installation / Brazil, 2013]

There is an opening in time where the

past and the present do not exist. Instead,

there is just one innite now. This present

is formed by the presents from an innitenumber of worlds. In silence, these worlds

make contact with one another and the

nothing shows itself.

[video documentation]
http://videolopez.com/video/silenciar.mp4http://videolopez.com/video/silenciar.mp4


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Absent/Present[installation / Brazil, 2013]The crystal becomes a window between

two worlds. It is the same in both worlds

where its movements are identical. In these

worlds it is a vehicle of light and shadow.

The crystal, being sensitive to space,spreads the light and the darkness. One

world depends on the absence of the

other. The presence of one denes the

silence of the other and vice versa. These

worlds are present and absent at the same

time.

http://videolopez.com/video/abs&pre.mp4http://videolopez.com/video/abs&pre.mp4


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Entrelaando[Interweaving][video installation / Brazil, 2013]

Different worlds where diverse actions

take place simultaneously with the same

people. The ordinary actions are viewed

as extraordinary events. These actions

from different worlds speak to one another.

There is an alchemy that turns the sun

into a candle, the word into silence, the

light into darkness. One action could be

the product of the imagination of the other

scene, a projection. It is being imagined by

that which is being imagined.

http://videolopez.com/video/trama.mp4http://videolopez.com/video/trama.mp4


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Gaivota[Seagull]

[video installation / Brazil, 2012]

In Gaivotaeach image is true, no matter whether it is

a reex. A seagull hits the mirrors of a room. From on

high she falls and then comes back to the top. When

she comes back, because of the space traveled and

the mirror textures, she becomes different. Like this,

she returns constantly to the beginning. Her world is

composed through repetitive cycles that congure

spaces and times that ll the being.

http://videolopez.com/video/gaivota.mp4http://videolopez.com/video/gaivota.mp4


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Desterrar[Exile][video installation / Brazil, 2012]Desterrar is the meeting of two dynamic

forces. Their dance, very similar on every

occasion, is repeated in different places.

Small variations happen within each

repetition. It might be a different body

movement, shadow or gust of wind. Every

moment turns into a unique and new

experience.

http://videolopez.com/video/desterro.mp4http://videolopez.com/video/desterro.mp4


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Vaivm[Swinging][video installation / Brazil, 2012]

I see one image. A device presents it to me

in that way. But getting closer, that image

and the device are congured by multiple

images that in a moment and space

become a unity. This happens in a owing

movement. The images are composed

by abstract devices that appear to be

absolutes, but which reveal themselves in

their true form with proximity and from a

certain viewing angle.

http://videolopez.com/video/vaivem.mp4http://videolopez.com/video/vaivem.mp4


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Mergulhar[Submerge][video installation / Brazil, 2012]

In Mergulharthe real is congured by

different samples of reality. Through the

use of audiovisual images of different

lengths we see opposite elements: day-

night, fast-slow, heaven-earth, background-

foreground. The result produced by this

opposition is the meeting of two forces, a

gap to generate the displacement of the

real.

http://videolopez.com/video/terraSemTitulo.mp4http://videolopez.com/video/terraSemTitulo.mp4


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Momentneo[Momentary][Installation / Brazil, 2012]

The sunlight comes through the window

and hits the oor, gently. The light moves

slowly over it, generating a rhythm in that

space-time. The movement of the light

through the window does not make astrong sound. This sound goes unnoticed

in the everyday. In contrast to the things we

see every day in the city, the fast and slow

rhythm is united in a moment. The meeting

of those rhythms moves us from our

routines and the way in which we decide to

perceive the world. It might even becomepossible to listen to the silence of thought.

http://videolopez.com/video/umMomento.mp4http://videolopez.com/video/umMomento.mp4


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Encender del pixel[Turn on the Pixel][video installation / Brazil, 2011]

Democritus said that re is the basic

matter particle. Fire, sensitive and always

in motion, is basic in everything I know.

The video image is also made up of basic

particles pixels of light. Encender el pixel

increments the re of the candle, the pixel,

the wind and the public. Encender el pixel

amplies the basic.

http://videolopez.com/video/pixelFogo.mp4http://videolopez.com/video/pixelFogo.mp4


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