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Someone is sleeping. A conveyor belt moves stones in an underground place. The stones fall through a hole in the shape of a mouth. Some hands go through a piece of concrete. Someone operates a knob that crushes the stone. In CORE, we document the different states through which the material passes: stone, dust, liquid and solid. Moving between the surface of things and underneath them, we interweave two apparently distant processes: hands traversing and manipulating cement sculptures and the process of extracting and transforming stones in a quarry. An encounter and friction between materials that is in turn the result of the meeting and negotiation of two languages, the sculptural and the cinematographic.

JUNE BIO June Crespo (Pamplona 1982) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country in 2005 and participated in the De Ateliers residency programme (Amsterdam 2015-2017). Her solo exhibitions include: entre alguien y algo (2022) and Ser dos (2017) at CarrerasMugica gallery, Bilbao; Helmets (2020) at Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Voy, sí (2020) Heinrich Ehrhardt gallery, Madrid and No Osso (2019) at Uma Certa Falta de Coêrencia, Oporto. She has recently participated in group exhibitions such as: The Milk of Dreams, Venice Biennale 2022; Fata Morgana, Jeu de Paume (Paris) or El sentido de la Escultura at the Miró Foundation (Barcelona). MADDI BIO Maddi Barber (Valle de Arce, 1988) has a degree in Audiovisual Communication and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. Her work has been shown at festivals such as Visions du Réel, FidMarseille, San Sebastian (Zabaltegi), Curtocircuito, Zinebi, Ji.hlava, Porto Post Doc and Las Palmas, among others. They have also been exhibited in museums and centres such as La Panera, Artium and the Oteiza Museum. She is currently working on the development of his first feature film, "Claros de bosque".

“The Peaceable Kingdom” is a deep fake ontology. It is a dreamscape of various domestic and wild animals inhabiting human architectural spaces metaphorically and physically as both totems and discrete intelligent beings. The title is taken from a series of paintings by the Quaker minister and painter, Edward Hicks.

Brit Bunkley is a New Zealand-based artist and videographer whose practice includes the construction of large-scale outdoor sculpture and installations as well as the creation of ‘impossible’ moving and still images and architecture designed using 3D modeling, video editing, and image editing programs. Bunkley, an NZ/USA citizen, has also been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Rome Prize Fellowship in the USA. International screenings include the White Box gallery in NYC and the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. In 2012 Bunkley was an award winner at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for the «Now&After» Festival. He took part in the Athens Digital Arts Festival and File Sao Paolo 2017, 2018, and 2019. Bunkley screened his video, Ghost Shelter/6 at The Federation Square Big Screen, Channels Festival 2017, Melbourne, and at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany in 2018, Docfest Kassel 2019 and Jihlava IDFF 2021 and 2022, Czech Republic. And Video Art Miden and Video Art Projects, Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, FILE SP 2023 exhibition and Hochkantfilmfest, Portrait -video on advertising billboards, Bremen, Germany in 2023 Recent group exhibitions include the “Stories of Rust”, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga, NZ, and “Green Around'' in Taipei, Taiwan in 2019, the Auckland Botanic Gardens 2022 and “Sculpture on the Gulf” 2022, Auckland, NZ, the “2021 National Contemporary Art Award”, Waikato Museum, Waikato, NZ and “Visions in the Nunnery”, Bows Art/Nunnery Gallery, London in 2022. Recent solo exhibitions include Solo exhibitions include the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand in 2018, the Institut für Alles Mögliche/Stützpunkt Teufelsberg, Berlin 2019, The Rabbit Room, Napier, NZ 2022, at Scott Lawrie Gallery, Auckland New Zealand 2022, and aGallery, Whanganui, NZ.

« Tout a tendance à dériver avec le temps et perd de sa précision de façon périodique. Un ajustement assure que la précision reste au niveau requis. » Comme une invocation, une nécessité de calibration du paysage qui perdrait petit à petit sa condition naturelle, le film projette une nature mouvante, en constante modification et réajustement. Les niveaux de vents, hauteurs de neiges, les compositions physiques, géologiques, morphologiques et temporelles s’étalonnent lentement, la montagne s’équilibre. Dans la continuité de « Volva », film tourné en 2016 à l’observatoire astronomique du Pic du Midi, « Calibration » est une expérience physique de la nature, d’un temps vécu, en plein hiver, isolé dans un refuge de haute montagne durant trois semaines, au contact des aléas du vent, de la neige, des lumières et du temps.

Architecte de formation il collabore dans diverses agences avant de se consacrer exclusivement à sa pratique artistique. En 2006 il est lauréat de la bourse de la Fondation EDF pour les jeunes architectes. Il réalise le projet photographique Landscape scale sur les barrages des Pyrénées qui marquera la direction de ses futurs projets. Il centre ses recherches sur les relations qui se tissent entre l’architecture et le paysage, entre l’homme et la nature. Ses recherches tentent de construire la part impalpable de notre relation au naturel. Ses installations se développent entre photographies, vidéos et volumes construits. En 2016 il réalise son premier film, Volva à l’observatoire astronomique du Pic du Midi. Durant 3 semaines passées à 2871m, il capte inlassablement les traces du temps imprimés dans les expériences scientifiques, l’architecture du lieu et le paysage environnant. Nominé dans divers festivals, Volva est lauréat du prix LOOP Discover à Barcelone. Il intègre la collection du MACBA et du FRAC Normandie Caen. Il a été résident de la Casa de Velázquez et de l’Institut français. Ses travaux sont exposés en Europe, aux Etats-Unis et intègrent diverses collections publiques, FRAC, musées et Fondations. Il vit et travaille à Argut-Dessus, dans les Pyrénées.