KÜNSTLERHAUS

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Romeo Gongora

Canada

Romeo Gongora has explored displacement and intimate spaces as reflections of interiority for several years. Fusing digital photography with high definition video, he creates scenes of deep emotional intensity with great economy of gesture. In this way body language takes on great significance. His subjects are often suspended in a supercharged world where verbal communication is repressed, but nonetheless enacted on some level. Playing upon the multiple meanings of scene – as place, set, stage, act, event, and social sphere or network – his work evokes myriad questions relating to representations of individual identities. Gongora`s work generates a sense of bodily presence using the qualities of the lens-based image in combination with sound, duration, installation art strategies and moving image.(Excerpt from Katy McCormick, “Scene as Space Across Time: Presence, Passage and Transition”, BlackFlash, vol. 25, no. 3, 2008)