Rodrigo Valenzuela in group exhibition at The Franklin in Chicago 3.31.16
Screened in concert with transmissions: algoritmos, polyrhythms, karuaqmi puririnay at The Franklin, La Vista: mamihlapinatapai is a video art program concerned with the vibrant encounter between the beholder and what is looked upon. The video is testimony of a meeting between the camera and its subject, wherein zoetic force inevitably manifests through the reciprocation of the gaze. The exchange is rooted in recognition and an inability to communicate properly, thus this paradoz becomes a playful pas de deux, an attempt to say what is unsayable, but mutually understood.
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