April 12 – May 5, 2022
Esther Gatón
Machine White Sun, 2020
HD film and sound. Duration: 15 minutes and 27 seconds
Curated by Cristina Ramos
MACHINE WHITE SUN (2020) contemplates the behaviour of fluid in different containers, ranging from condensation on public transport to the routinary cleaning of the New Docklands Sauna in London, or the floods that took place in the artificial beach of Valladolid in Spain last Christmas. Blade hydraulics, pressurised systems, public fountains and subaquatic designs show a substance which does not hold precise form yet allows for such a diversity of functions. As encounters with water become metaphors for truth and artifice, the film measures our reactions to what is beautiful, ugly or difficult to face.
Esther Gatón was born in Valladolid (1988) and currently lives in London. She holds a PhD from the Complutense Madrid for her research on Post-Fordist forms of artistic production, and studied fine arts between the centres of Complutense University of Madrid, saint-luc Liège, Belgium, University of Barcelona, and Goldsmiths London. Gatón works across sculpture, moving image and text. She has taught in paralell to her practice at Landa Espositivo and as a Honorary Collaborator at the UCM Madrid, and has published essays with Materiales Concretos, A*Desk, Nero, and Urbanomic. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as CA2M Museum, La Casa Encendida, Capc Bordeaux, Matadero Madrid, Navarra University Museum, among others. Recent awards include Generaciones, Injuve, Circuitos de las Artes Plásticas, Veepee Art Price, and Art Council London. Gatón is represented by Cibrián, in Donostia-San Sebastián and will have a solo show in CA2M Museum Madrid in early 2023, curated by Cory John Scozzari.
