Dorothy Cheung

Residency period: September-October 2019
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September 2019

Dorothy Cheung is working in collaboration with Beatriz Gijón and Julia de Rosenwerth on a video installation that explores the relationship between human bodies and nature.
The camera becomes a witness and companion of the body fragments that unusually venture into understanding the landscape and deepen its tactile and sonic qualities.

Much of Dorothy’s work is expressed through the moving image. When Dorothy is behind the camera, she always does it from an ethical approach, trying to gauge what the distance and proximity to establish with the subject portrayed is. For this reason, she often places the camera on the tripod and lets the subjects make the decision of what they want to deliver to the frame.

While Julia Rosenwerth dives into the tactile exploration, Beatriz Gijón, has generated the sound composition of the videos with field recordings and her piano music to highlight the tactile qualities of the landscape through the auditory.

October 2019

Monologue of the Promised Fruit is a moving image installation, that consists of pickled lemons and a video reflecting on the process, and the notion of unwanted. After being in Blanca for 2 months, she is still amazed by the abundance of land here – the unlimited lemons, figs and other produces, and most of the time these lemons just fall and rot on the ground. This abundance shapes her memory here in Blanca, but often she identifies herself with these unwanted lemons.

The video reflects on the bitterness in life, that very often lemon is being taken as a metaphor for, and how to pickle, or transform such emotion into something else.

Visitors can take pickled lemon and enzyme cleaner if they wish.