The Cine lattice project explores the difference between mashrabiya or Arab lattices and Western windows. In the West the idea of ​​Renaissance perspective is linked to the window, which directs the gaze outwards. In the East, the mashrabiya or lattices domesticate the gaze through light and direct it inward.

 

Paying attention to the history of the gaze in the East and the West, we find two symbolic forms that administer the gaze differently. In the West the idea of ​​Renaissance perspective is linked to the window, which directs the gaze outwards. In the East, the mashrabiya or lattices domesticate the gaze through light and direct it inward.

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In both cultures, the outside and the inside are found in a different relationship that occurs between the gaze, the landscape and the light. However, today it seems that we all look for the world not on the other side of the window, or within the space of the lattice, but on the screens that are placed in front of our eyes, in which the photographic image and the video are the most consumed.

 

Candeo builds wooden “lattice chambers” with the traditional design of eight-pointed stars, from which he records the landscape of the city of Córdoba, establishing a paradox between the outside and the inside, the gaze and the light. The installation combines these symbolic forms through audiovisuals.

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El proyecto Cine celosía explora la diferencia entre las mashrabiya o celosías árabes y las ventanas occidentales. En Occidente la idea de la perspectiva renacentista está vinculada a la ventana, que dirige la mirada hacia afuera. En Oriente, la mashrabiya o celosías, domestican la mirada a través de la luz y la dirigen hacia adentro.

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Candeo construye “cámaras-celosías” de madera con el diseño tradicional de estrellas de ocho puntas, desde las cuales graba el paisaje de la ciudad de Córdoba, estableciendo una paradoja entre el afuera y el adentro, la mirada y la luz. La instalación conjuga estas formas simbólicas a través del audiovisual.