The twist is the protagonist of the three works that make up this exhibition. Giro as a claim, as a dance, as an experiment. Emotional and aesthetic rotations, hypnotic circular movements. Bodies and shapes that move freely or conditioned, beauty and reflection in the simple act of turning.

Dismantling the multiple meanings of the English expression “Idle woman”, Anna Gimein constructs in De la O a poetic self-portrait in a circular shape where the turn is the movement that links everything and which is used to create a beautiful visual metaphor in which We enter guided by his narration, accompanied by rhythmic sounds of flamenco roots.

In this video installation with three projectors, archival images appear, mostly from the 19th and early 20th centuries, where the protagonists dance and dance in multiple styles. They rotate on themselves as some mechanisms also rotate in a vacuum. In other sequences we see masses of people moving in circles just as the planet they walk on rotates. The artist thus vindicates her own existential turn and that of all women and invites us to question the established movements. Moving away from the established balance, turning for the sake of turning, madly and senselessly, wasting time.

In “Bomarzo”, Adriana Bustos shows us a still shot of a glass where cocaine is dissolved in water and bleach, a process used by dealers to determine the purity gradient by separating the pure hydrochloride from the cutting substance.

Vortexes and spirals are created inside the container where the substance goes from the initial agitation to a rested state where, in gentle turns, shapes float that suggest the formation of a small universe. Luminous beauty that contrasts with the darkness behind the traffic of white dust. The hypnotic turn is enhanced by the sound structured like a motet, a musical form that precedes polyphony, where voices in different languages ​​come together and among which we also hear extracts from stories of the mule women interviewed in the Bouwer prison in the city of Córdoba.

Maureen Muse offers us a visual experience where everything spins.

This 16mm cinematographic exploration called Plaza Nelson Mandela starts from this popular place in Lavapiés to add different spaces in new chapters.
During filming, artists are invited to interact with the rotating movement of the camera, allowing chance to also play a role in selecting the characters that pass through the image. The work, participatory, organic and subjective, closes the perfect circle by also presenting itself projected with a rotating system, uniting appearance and content.
A poetic-formal reflection through an original iterative process in constant evolution.

Text: Francisco Pradilla