Catalogue > At random

Fabiola Torres-alzaga

The Uninvited

Film expérimental | 4k | noir et blanc | 12:2 | Mexique | 2023

With no visible human presence, we move through the interior of a house. Like all houses, it contains spaces of darkness and corners hidden from view. That house, that interior, hides its flat background of ephemeral construction. We are inside a set built to the limits of the frame that films it. That house was only a fragment of what it appears to be. “The Uninvited” is a short film not about what there is, but about what there could be. Cinema is an apparatus of power over the representations shown therein and the bonds of continuity of a society. “The Uninvited” shows a house haunted by those absences, its blind spots and the violence of its limits and exclusion that its representations have meant.

Fabiola Torres-Alzaga is a Mexican artist working in contemporary art. She studied photography at “The active school of photography” and visual arts at “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City. She has been investigating focus and nearsightedness present in the act of gazing, and its repercussions in our socio-spatial relationships. I have a keen interest in cinema and its articulations of space and time, as well as stage magic and its defiance of logic. Both disciplines comprise the basis of my research. Through them, I seek to expand the scope of the visible, creating illusionary worlds that intrude into real space, counter-spaces that claim inclusive folds within the rigid limits of patriarchy to generate Other possible relations. Her work has been shows at MUAC (Mexico City, 2021), Lille3000 (France, 2019), the Biennal FEMSA (Zacatecas, 2018), the Anthology Film Archives (New York, 2018), the Biennal of Moving Images (Buenos Aires, 2018), the Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York, 2018), Videoex , Maison des Arts de Malakoff (France, 2016), the Polytechnic Museum of Moscow (Russia, 2015), MARCO (Monterrey, 2015), Museum of El Chopo (Mexico City, 2014), Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City, 2014), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City, 2011), the Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv, 2006) and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (Mexico City, 2004), among others. She has published “Historias de la noche” (Stories of the night, ESPAC, 2019) a book/project in dialogue with cinema curator Mara Fortes, and a solo catalogue “Fabiola Torres-Alzaga: In between acts” (Museo Universitario del Chopo, 2015), she´s currently a member of the Fonca’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores.