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Diego Del Pozo Barriuso

PIEZA PARA ORGÍA Y FÁBRICA

Animation | dv | noir et blanc | 6:42 | Espagne | 2006

This is a piece about loneliness, about the need for affection and about how the contemporary subject is submerged in the strive for a resolution of these lacks in the context of the work and production system. The images represent a number of different individuals in two completely different situations, and some of them participate in both: some people have just taken part in an orgy, while others are at work, in different working environments (an office, a production line, a workshop, a school, a hospital). We witness the interior monologues of all these people. They are never alone in these situations, but they feel lonely. Their intimate thoughts come in succession, never simultaneously.

Diego del Pozo Barriuso lives and works in Madrid. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Art in Salamanca and Madrid, and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Artist and cultural producer, he develops projects about the social production of the body and identity. His work is based on his concern about affection and desire and the way in which these emotions, associated with subjective, private experience are conditioned by our social environment, by power and by production methods. His work is based on the idea that social control mechanisms are interiorised by individuals, and he shows how the cracks in these tools of power come into conflict and create contradictions within us. He also works with the group C.A.S.I.T.A. (www.ganarselavida.net) His work forms part, among other collections, of the collection of the MUSAC of León, Spain, and of the collection of DA2, the Centre of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Spain.