blue [2021]
video art
Concept & direction: Federica Dauri, Ivan Neri.
Performance: Federica Dauri.
Cinematographer, editor, colorist: Ivan Neri.
Audio post-production: Elisa Batti.
7–21 July 2023 — Inside Me, Fundación MAPFRE Canarias, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Video art exhibition curated by Paco Barragán, in collaboration with Galería Leyendecker
The film was shot in a basement. Rather than attempting to escape the claustrophobic reality of lockdown, Dauri sought to intensify it, deliberately placing the body within an even more confined and isolated environment. The basement becomes a closed world: an underground space separated from ordinary life, in which time, perception, and bodily presence gradually begin to shift.
The only object accompanying the body is an old chair that belonged to Dauri’s father during his childhood.
The camera becomes the only witness to the action, replacing the physical presence of the spectator and creating another form of intimacy with the performing body.
Through repetition, waiting and prolonged isolation, Blue investigates states of alienation and altered perception. The boundaries between interior and exterior, action and inactivity, presence and absence become increasingly unstable. The confinement imposed by the historical moment is deliberately amplified until it becomes a perceptual and bodily condition.