Dreams Before Sunrise

1996

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Rare photos for the Capital of Palestine - Alquds 1920 which is 29 years before the born of the Israeli occupation.

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[goldnpoc]

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I feel so validated right now

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This is important.

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Les Deux Amis (2015)

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[rockandrollchick29]

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Claude Monet’s home in Giverny 

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Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo, 1960s

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Javier Pérez: En Puntas (2013)

Video installation of variable measurements comprising: Sculpture: pointe shoes, stainless steel knives Video projection: HD blu-ray, with sound, screened on a wall 9’

A ballerina, whose pointe shoes are extended by a set of sharp kitchen knives, dances and twirls insistently until reaching exhaustion, fighting to maintain balance on the lid of a grand piano set on a stage.  The theatre with its red velvet warm lighting, resembles an oversized music box. The camera turns around the dancer revealing the opposite side of the room: an empty and painfully bare theatre.

The ballerina appears as an eerie figure expressing effort, sacrifice and pain in her strive for perfection. Both fragile and cruel. Initially shy and hesitant, her steps become more and more emphatic, menacing and not exempt of violence, scraping and cutting into the delicate surface of the piano with her sharp pointe shoes.

Through this work, Javier Perez investigates and reflects once again upon the human condition. Using a strongly metaphorical language rich in powerful symbolism, he reveals the weaknesses that become the boundaries between seemingly irreconcilable concepts such as: beauty and cruelty, fragility and violence, culture and nature or life and death.

watch the video performance

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guys this is fabulouly startling

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I love cats

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