Andrés Denegri

Andrés Denegri approaches the visual arts combining film, video, installations and photography. His projects generate dialogues between different formats, addressing them poetically and conceptually, creating tension in the classic uses of audiovisual technologies. His photographic production has its origins in analog cinema as the artist uses sequences of 16mm or Super 8 film frames to generate still images. Vintage film projectors are the protagonists of many of Denegri’s installations: from portable family devices to powerful industrial machines that are combined in the production of kinetic objects and monumental screens where celluloid leaves the projector and travels through the space traveled by the viewer. His cinematographic gaze allows the artist to create works thought as sequences, images that operate as registers where dialogues between cinema, literature and photography are proposed but where each practice maintains its support, its language, without invading the terrain of the other. Some of his most outstanding works such as “Instante Bony” (2000), “Tomar las calles” (2019) and “Máquinas de lo sensible (2019)” deal with research in the field of audiovisual arts and experimental cinema as well as study of material from historical archives. Denegri produces works where the devices and the memory technology are transformed into an allegory of the processes of forgetting and the denial of history, inviting the viewer to rethink the relationship between memory and its active importance in our present.