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Dani Marti, The Stamp Collector [cropped video still], 2007, video 6’40min
DANI MARTI's work The Stamp Collector is part of the exhibition Five itineraries with a point of view at MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León). This exhibition celebrates the 15th anniversary of MUSAC and explores five themes that have guided the museum's acquisitions and programming since 2013.
In this video work we see a close-up of a man in a leather suit engaging in a chat exchange. The character remains anonymous - we hear only the sound of the keyboard and see the screen reflected in his glasses. Conflating the genres of portraiture and social documentary, the work displays many of the defining features on Marti's video practice - constrained scale, focus on the body and an intense concentration on an everyday scenario. "I call them portraits as a starting point, as a reference...but these portraits go beyond the person being portrayed - the individuals are just vehicles for something else. It is a search for some kind of abstraction, or maybe you could call it emotion," says Marti.
The exhibition at MUSAC runs until 7 June.