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Francis Naranjo

DISTOPIA EN EL SISTEMA BINARIO

Vidéo expérimentale | dv | noir et blanc | 7:21 | Espagne | 2011

The protagonist of the video is located on a white, sterilized stage without any possibility for us to be distracted from the speech: a person defined as transgender tells us, opened heart, but concealing his/her identity, his/her experience for defending being himself/herself, far from the placements of gender and sex. After all sex is biological, but gender is a social construct and as such is built and is changed. The content of his speech, also by the concealment of his/her identity, can be extrapolated to other areas of a binary and Manichean society that feels more secure to pigeonholing people. Therefore, Dystopia in the binary system is presented more as a space of visibility of diversity.

Francis Naranjo is a Spanish artist born in Santa María de Guia, in the Canary Islands, in 1961. He has produced videos and installation pieces. His work develops problem areas pertaining to the society of information, highly technological, in which we are being controlled or in which we control, as well as globalization and the general use of new technologies and the human condition. Among other places, his work has been exhibited in the in different cities of the world like Santiago de Chile, Berlín, Nueva York, Göteborg, Miami, Uppsala, Madrid, París, Sevilla, Valencia, Casablanca, Tel Aviv, Montreal, South Korea, etc.