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Maite Abella

Het wachten

Film experimental | 16mm | couleur et n&b | 15:40 | Pays-Bas | 2008

Synopsis A woman is running through a deserted city. To keep running is the only way to live in these streets. She is not hasty, she is quite serene, but maybe lost. In fact we don?t know exactly the raison but the woman can only live in the city through this universal run. While she is running, we see eight group portraits inspired by the composition of Dutch XVI-XVII Century paintings, those are the ones who wait. Finally she arrives at an unexpected panorama: a beautiful canal that inspires a meditative moment in her. She jumps into the water looking for the final communion with the inner city, and magically reaches the other side of the canal.

Biographical note Maite Abella (born 1966) is a Spanish artist . Born in Lleida (Spain) in 1966, Maite Abella attended Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting. She also attended Universitat de Belles Arts in Barcelona (Spain). She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geography from the Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). In 2001 she was nominated for the Buning Brongers Award for painting and in 2003 she got The Starters stipend Dutch National Fundation for the Arts (The Netherlands). She has exhibited her paintings since 1999 regularly in The Netherlands. Since 2000 Abella makes short films and also she has developed site-speficic projects in the public space.