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This Saturday, the San Sebastián Festival and Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary Culture will open the exhibition La Cañada. Geographies of the invisible. The exhibition contains a selection of photographs and an audiovisual piece created respectively by Manuel Rojo and Txema Tørres based on material put together during the shooting of Guillermo Galoe’s feature film Ciudad sin sueño / Sleepless City, included in the Perlak section after having landed the Prix SACD at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes.
From 20-27 September, Tabakalera’s first floor will house this show in which a selection of photographs from the project by Manuel Rojo, Miradas / Gazes will engage in dialogue with excerpts from Aleluya, an audiovisual piece by Txema Tørres. The works, created during the shooting of Ciudad sin sueño / Sleepless City, shape a universe of its own yet intimately linked to the film, an artistic dialogue that expands its experience thanks to this exhibition curated by Marina García López.
A total of 22 photographs make up Rojo’s Miradas / Gazes selection, suspended from the ceiling in a “choreography of floating bodies”, while the audiovisual piece by Tørres, conceived as a “cinematic hallelujah”, is composed of static shots from the filming, visual phonemes, and asynchronies that dissolve the hierarchy between background and figure, between gaze and event.
Starring non-professional actors, Ciudad sin sueño / Sleepless City was filmed in Cañada Real, on the outskirts of Madrid, in Europe’s largest irregular settlement. The installation turns Tabakalera’s corridor into a place of transit, where there is no linear route. The images hang from the ceiling as if refusing to touch the ground, something that the authors compare to the real Cañada Real, “a space suspended between the city and the void, between uprooting and belonging”.
As recalled by Manuel Rojo and Txema Tørres, their works were created during the shoot, “not as documentation, but as a parallel artistic gesture”. What is shown here is not the making of a film, but a reading-in-transit of that borderland, captured from within. The filming is not the object, but the fertile ground where these two visions found their form”, they end.
The exhibition is jointly organised by the San Sebastián Festival, Tabakalera and the production companies Sintagma, Buenapinta Media, Encanta Films and Bteam prods. The film Ciudad sin sueño / Sleepless City will have its release in commercial cinemas on 21 November.
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