FABLE(S) 

(Una fábula / 寓話)

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2016 - 2017   Made in Spain and Japan

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Work format:  Video installation (Dimension variable)

Materials:  Projector, rear projector screen, monitor

Above: The Kyôgen Play Utsubo Zaru (The Monkey's Quiver) by Hokusai

Introduction:

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FABLE(S) is a dialogue/trilogue between a monkey and two persons who don't have a language in common.

The monkey and the persons are mutually exotic, creating two layers of linguistic (im)possibilities: one dialogue between two humans, and another between two humans and a monkey.

The image looks like a contemporary version of El Greco's Una Fábula, while at the same time looking like Utsubo Zaru (The Monkey's Quiver) from Kyōgen, Japanese traditional comic theater.

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Thus FABLE(S) reinterprets, or rather imitates superficially, these two references at once in order to tell a new fable out of two contextually different ones.

Una fábula by El Greco in 1580

Supported by:

TOKAS (Tokyo Arts and Space)

MATADERO MADRID (El Ranchito)

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