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Esteban Rivera Ariza

Die Versteinerten

Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 7:27 | Colombie, Allemagne | 2015

An interview with David Stodolsky, member of the Cryonics Institute, who guides us trough the Building-Monument built over the previous house of Walter Gropius in Dessau, Germany. Renovated by Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architects in 2008, the construction reproduces the original volume of Gropius` house. In the film, the house works as a metaphor of what is fossilized. The idea of Modernism remains in this case in a fossil state, and survives in time as a trace of what once was. This video is part of a reflection on the act of conservation (of ideas, of bodies) as a human activity.

Esteban Rivera, Bogotá, Colombia (1981). He is finishing his Master studies in Art and Media in the Arts University in Berlin (Universität der Künste, Berlin) under Prof. Ai Weiwei and also as student of Prof. Anna Anders. He studied Graphic Design and a Master in Arts in the National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia). He makes films and videoinstallation and currently works in Berlin.