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Rehearsals to raise the fist. The creation of a gesture, its birth and memory. Instancias de Lucha was carried out together with workers from recovered factories from Buenos Aires and actors from community theater groups whom I invited to rehearse a gesture of struggle. The choice of the sequence shot, fixed frame and slowed down time allows observing the deconstruction of each movement, its gestation, its development and its end. This work belongs to the series "Scenes of work". It takes as its starting point the themes, concerns and visual representations of the group "The artists of the People" (active between 1915 and 1930 in Argentina) and proposes a contemporary rereading in video format.

Gabriela Golder was born in 1971 in Buenos Aires, where she lives and works. Visual artist, curator and professor she is the director of the Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (BIM) and curator of El Cine es otra cosa, the Experimental Video and Film Program of the Modern Art Museum in Buenos Aires. She essentially works with “moving image”, and her artistic practice mainly raises issues of memory, identity and the world of labour. Her videos, films and installations, for which she has won several awards and grants, have been presented at numerous exhibition venues and festivals around the world. Among others she received the following awards: Estado da Arte, en la 21a Bienal de Arte Contemporánea Sesc_Videobrasil, Brasil; the "Sigwart Blum Award“ of the Argentinean Arts Critics Association, Argentina; the Media Art Award from the ZKM, Germany, the first prize at Festival Videoformes, France and the Tokyo Video Award.