Many years ago, God gave antlers to the camel, as a reward for the goodness of its heart. But one day a rogue deer came and asked the camel to lend him his antlers…
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“I blossomed as a woman at Prinsengracht 263 on 4 August 1944, when the Dutch Nazi police captured me shamelessly alive among the unmade beds…”
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If the soul is a flame, how many candles should light up the oceans where nuclear waste is killing all living creatures? With music by Shiri Malckin…
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Why do humans do themselves harm? Why do they destroy the nature they are part of? These are the questions that the artist, as part of humankind, asks herself, through a variety of expressive spaces and languages including performances, fragments of historical films and animated drawings on paper…
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Korporal Zoo X: “Reynard the Fox”. Video installation with 12 triangular canvases (digital prints with manual intervention), and a video projection playing with all elements…
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With the Golem, humankind tries to create a clone of itself and fill it with memory – our collective memory, which increases every instant and pretends to contain the whole human history…
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A crucial scene in the video is a pelican biting itself in the chest to save his children with his own blood. It is an image of great allegorical significance in antiquity and in Christianity…
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“Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” Meditation of the artist recovering from an eye operation, during her walks in Berlin in May 2017, where she met the famous statue of the Trümmerfrau…
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According to Greek tradition, the story developes itself from a red string which transforms continuously, appears, disappears and re-appears again, and leads the protagonists along the way of the tale…
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In an old cemetery, the graves become one with nature. Tombstones are covered by vegetation, names are hidden and become memories that only earth can read…
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In The Waltz appear birds flying freely, and a couple of women (they can be sisters, friends, lovers) closed in a cage, who dance an endless waltz…
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The forbidden fruit in paradise was not an apple – it was an orange. Peeled and tasted, it opened the universe of senses and it lit the fire of passion…
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Korporal Labyrinth is a work in progress, an account of a visceral journey in different stadia, expressed in a series of short videos. The artist’s drawing of the labyrinth was the starting point for the project…
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“… and the Word was Sun” is the second video of the project Korporal Labyrinth, and gives the answer to the first video “In the Beginning was the Word”…
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In this third video of the project Korporal Labyrinth, the artist performs a ritual walk from the place where her mother died to the place where she was born, crossing the Merwede, the river from both their childhood…
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In this fourth and last video of the project Korporal Labyrinth, the artist performs a ritual on the beach of Hoek van Holland, the place where the waters of the large river area, where she and her mother were born and grew up, flow into the sea…
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In this video, the artist acts with what she calls her “third eye”: a small video camera attached to her forehead. On the runway of the historical airport Tempelhof in Berlin she takes off and flies into outer space…
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The video has been inspired by the novel “The Cloven Viscount” by Italo Calvino. The story begins with a desolate landscape and a war scene…
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One of the most neglected aspects about refugees is that they are in a situation of emergency in which they have to take a decision immediately, and whatever they decide, there is no turning back…
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“Wor(l)ds without end” originates from a very special relationship between two women who never met, but have been connected since ever. They invented several ways to communicate through networks…
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“Attempt to form squares instead of circles around a stone falling into water” and “Attempt to fly”, two works by Gino De Dominicis from 1969, inspired Maria Korporal in her performance in this video…
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The video opens with a shot of a crowd of people engrossed in the Saturday afternoon shopping ritual in Via del Corso in Rome. Movement and noise begin to speed up before dissolving into a blurred whole with indistinct sounds…
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The video has been created on a piece of “musique concrete” by Emiliano Pietrini (Globoscuro). Following this sound trail, video artist Maria Korporal created a visual walk in the main railway station of Berlin…
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An old Native American legend tells that an insect stole the shadow to those who did not respect nature…
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With a poem by Marcia Theophilo. Crumpled paper balls are picked up from the road. Agile hands transform them into pages of a book…
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The seven lives of the cat follow each other in a temporal line. Introduced by the sounds of bells or drums, each life presents a new dimension: an inner experience of time juxtaposed against the external course of things…
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With a poem by Daìta Martinez. (amarezza) / supplisce / zucchero in cammino / dentro vene ubriache / di parole & pensieri…
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With a poem by Daìta Martinez. The video is the fruit of an encounter between a poet and a visual artist. Along the pathway of life, they share their stories, and open up different spaces and times…
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With a poem by Marcia Theophilo. In the forest exist / more eyes than leaves / more hearts than stones / it’s the night of harmony…
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The images and sounds are interwoven with the verses of the poet Daìta Martinez: a cycle of seven stages, each of which represents a different animal that is born from a stone…
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“Un giorno” è un piccolo video ispirato alle parole di tre poeti che amo. Le loro poesie, accompagnate dalle rondini, i gabbiani e i grilli, ci fanno attraversare un giorno al sud…
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