Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

You have been tracking us, is a video work that reconstructs one of the scenes of the movie Lawrence of Arabia (directed by David Lean in 1962), the scene is the one that has an oasis as background, where the little army of Lawrence has stopped to rest. The video has been shot at the same spots of Tabernas? Desert (Almería, Spain) where the scene was orginally shot, copying the movements of the camera, in order to analyze the landscape that the cinematographic industry produced and, afterwards, left behind. The production team of the movie created the oasis for the shooting and did not remove the palm trees afterwards, so the trees have managed to survive and they still remain alive, 40 years after; this particular condition creates an interesting situation, where fictional elements have produced a?real? landscape. The video works with images aesthetically close from documentaries, but follows the shots ant the movements of the original scene, creating a contradictory and strange landscape.

Teresa Solar has studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense, in Madrid and has obtained an MA in Contemporary Art at the European University of Madrid. She has been selected in different national contests such as ?Momentos de paisaje 09? (CDAN) and has participated in various exhibitions like ?Yo no tengo razón? (Off Limits, Madrid, 2009) and LOOP Festival (Barcelona, 2009). Since 2008 she has been investigating the relationships between touristic and cinematographic industry and landscape. Nowadays she is producing a new project in Cairo, Egypt.