Strawberry jelly for the road
Izaskun Etxebarria

The title Virtuous Circle calls up the expression “vicious circle” right at the start of the video. In this dance of letters and concepts we see the graceful display of a narrative that leads us by allusion through a fantastic story, packed with references to life as a road or as walking, a journey full of surprises, where the objects come out to meet the protagonist.

In an open-air setting, standing, on the grass, is a childlike girl with her eyes closed. Her movements make us think that we are submerged in another world, in the world of dreams perhaps, where time and space are not subordinated to the laws of physics. The water does not fall and dampens nothing, objects stir independently, as if coming alive of their own accord. The air in the video is dense: at times we might be submerged in the ocean, other times we feel suspended in astral space. [...]

(Text for the exhibition catalogue "Pamplona Young Artists 2005" Awards. Sala de Armas, Pamplona's Citadel. 2006)

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