“SHORE ADAPTATION” FLORENCIA RODRÍGUEZ GILES

 

Florencia Rodríguez Giles (Buenos Aires, 1978)  presents Adaptación Orilla for the first time in Spain, her latest work recently shown at the Ruth Benzacar gallery in Buenos Aires.
Adaptation Shore consists of fifteen photographs that present a fiction, a non-linear story with characters that only exist in their condition of representing.  Community uprooted from a supposed origin. Nature accompanies them.  They are wandering, repeating vestiges of a script that defines actions, roles, but in a state of estrangement.
The place where they appear is an abandoned building with a specific temporality, unlike the characters that lack this, they could be medieval, contemporary in disguise, ancient,  imaginary.
The photos show freezing of their actions and account for the disagreement between them and space. Fictional characters that inhabit a “real” space. In the work, a temporal superimposition becomes evident, given by the represented history and by the representation device, since the photos are digital files manipulated and re-photographed on the screen. The result is the photography of a screen, which produces a certain break in the image, a certain mediation in front of what is represented.