Alexandre Estrela

Alexandre Estrela works primarily with film and video, questioning the materiality of image while establishing a dialogue with the experimental story of film, video and photography. Estrela is interested in the issues that affect not only the nature of image, but also the viewer’s perception, whether in the interference between physical and mental image as in synaesthesia and the relationship between the image in movement or between images and sensations. His works convey a huge technical knowledge of how to work with film and, in this way, Estrela creates complex systems that take advantage of the characteristics of the film devices he explores, using playful strategies to deconstruct the usual modes of perception and knowledge of objects and space. Creating ambiguities, misleading, suggesting ways of decoding and defining decisions are processes brought about by the artist himself. He is interested in the coexistence of several layers of meaning and levels of perception, in an attempt to activate some critical awareness in the viewer. The Golden Record (All and Everything) is Estrela’s new video-installation, based on a photograph of the artist Espiga Pinto, and on a video where the forced rotation of a metalic solar disk reveals an invisible object that is colliding with other mathematically aligned stars in its trajectory.