Janis Rafa - Landscape Depressions, 2023 - Spazio Ferdinand Stuflesser, Pontives

Janis Rafa, Landscape Depressions, 2023.Videostill. Courtesy of the Artist

Janis Rafa se muev danter la formes d’ert visiva y cinematografica, ël realisea opres tres film che conta stories de n univiers ulache l ne ie nia la persona tl zënter y che vën a se l dé te raions che ie sun l cunfin dla perzezion o arbandunei, sun l ëur dl raion abità y dla cumenanza de persones. Si stories mët n relazion umans y nia umans, coche tieres y plantes che viv y nia y che à sciche fundamënta la murtalità, la cunvivënza y l’empatia danter la creatures. L film Kala azar (2020) conta dla vita de n pèr jëun che lëura te n crematorium per tieres y si inuem vën da na malatia che ti ani 1990 à dezimà la populazion di cians te Europa. Tl film che ie belau zënza dialogs passa i doi tres la campanies de na zità greca y chier schilec de tieres sun ëur de streda per i tlupé su y i ncendré.

Landscape Depressions (2023) che ie n mostra a Pontives conta de n lech artifiziel tl nord dla Grecia. L paesaje che semea tl prim naturel ie ntant sce l resultat de n ntervënt dla persona che pëta adum te na maniera sterscia cun la natura: la costruzion de na diga. L titul ie n juech de paroles che se stiza sun l’esprescion geologica che auza ora n raion che ie plu bas che l ntëurvia y forma nsci lec naturei. Tl video dorm la persones sëch y ie destachedes a na maniera che les devënta passives y i tieres ntant sce tol ite la lerch y l raion. La usc dedora dal ciamp che acumpanieia i chedri descrij la costruzion y la materialità de na diga cun la paroles dl architet y scritëur Aristide Antonas. (M.P.)

JANIS RAFA

Janis Rafa (1984, Athens, Greece) is based between Amsterdam and Athens. Rafa creates disquieting, fable-like films, video installations and cinematic narratives that question humans' relationship with non-human beings and the history of landscapes. She was a resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, and currently at Onassis Air, Athens. Solo exhibitions include EMST | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (upcoming); Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam; Centraal Museum, Utrecht. She also took part in the 59th Biennale di Venezia; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; MAXXI, Rome; State of Concept Athens; Manifesta 12; Centre d’art Contemporain Chanot; Mardin Biennial; and Kunsthalle Munster. Rafa’s work is part of several institutional and private collections including Stedelijk Museum, Centraal Museum, Museum Voorlinden and Fondazione In Between Art Film. Her debut feature film Kala azar (2020) world premiered at the IFFR (KNF award), and at New Directors/New Films at MoMA.

Janis Rafa - Landscape Depressions, 2023 - Spazio Ferdinand Stuflesser, Pontives

Janis Rafa, Landscape Depressions, 2023.Videostill. Courtesy of the Artist

Janis Rafa se muev danter la formes d’ert visiva y cinematografica, ël realisea opres tres film che conta stories de n univiers ulache l ne ie nia la persona tl zënter y che vën a se l dé te raions che ie sun l cunfin dla perzezion o arbandunei, sun l ëur dl raion abità y dla cumenanza de persones. Si stories mët n relazion umans y nia umans, coche tieres y plantes che viv y nia y che à sciche fundamënta la murtalità, la cunvivënza y l’empatia danter la creatures. L film Kala azar (2020) conta dla vita de n pèr jëun che lëura te n crematorium per tieres y si inuem vën da na malatia che ti ani 1990 à dezimà la populazion di cians te Europa. Tl film che ie belau zënza dialogs passa i doi tres la campanies de na zità greca y chier schilec de tieres sun ëur de streda per i tlupé su y i ncendré.

Landscape Depressions (2023) che ie n mostra a Pontives conta de n lech artifiziel tl nord dla Grecia. L paesaje che semea tl prim naturel ie ntant sce l resultat de n ntervënt dla persona che pëta adum te na maniera sterscia cun la natura: la costruzion de na diga. L titul ie n juech de paroles che se stiza sun l’esprescion geologica che auza ora n raion che ie plu bas che l ntëurvia y forma nsci lec naturei. Tl video dorm la persones sëch y ie destachedes a na maniera che les devënta passives y i tieres ntant sce tol ite la lerch y l raion. La usc dedora dal ciamp che acumpanieia i chedri descrij la costruzion y la materialità de na diga cun la paroles dl architet y scritëur Aristide Antonas. (M.P.)

JANIS RAFA

Janis Rafa (1984, Athens, Greece) is based between Amsterdam and Athens. Rafa creates disquieting, fable-like films, video installations and cinematic narratives that question humans' relationship with non-human beings and the history of landscapes. She was a resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, and currently at Onassis Air, Athens. Solo exhibitions include EMST | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (upcoming); Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam; Centraal Museum, Utrecht. She also took part in the 59th Biennale di Venezia; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; MAXXI, Rome; State of Concept Athens; Manifesta 12; Centre d’art Contemporain Chanot; Mardin Biennial; and Kunsthalle Munster. Rafa’s work is part of several institutional and private collections including Stedelijk Museum, Centraal Museum, Museum Voorlinden and Fondazione In Between Art Film. Her debut feature film Kala azar (2020) world premiered at the IFFR (KNF award), and at New Directors/New Films at MoMA.